Topics in Macro and Labor Econ

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will provide students with an overview of the main questions, tools, and models that lie at the intersection of the fields of macroeconomics and labor economics. In particular, the course will focus on the following research questions: Topics in Macro & Labor Georgetown University in Qatar • What is the role of human capital in economic growth? • How do workers accumulate human capital over their life-cycles? • How does human capital affect labor market outcomes? • How specific is the human capital that workers accumulate in a firm, occupation or industry? • How important are the tasks that workers perform in their jobs to explain their labor market outcomes? • What is the effect of technical change, automation and artificial intelligence in labor markets? The course will have a theoretical component, where the main models in this literature will be discussed, and a quantitative component, where students will work with databases and use computational software to bring some of the models analyzed in the course to the data.