14.662
Labor Economics II
Theory and evidence on the determinants of earnings levels and inequality, intergenerational mobility, skill demands, imperfect competition, and employment structure. Particular focus on the determinants of worker and firm-level productivity; and the roles played by supply, demand, discrimination, institutions, information, technology, and trade in the evolving distribution of income.
Spring 2015
Topics
- 1.1
- 1.2
- 2
- 3.1
- 3.2
- 3.3
- 4.1
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.2
- 5.1
- 5.2
- 6
- 7
- 2.1
- 2.2
- 2.3
- 4.2
Readings
- The class 14.999 Topics in Inequality, taught by Daren Acemoglu, David Autor, and Ivan Werning, was offered for the first time in Spring 2015. The instructor for 14.662, David Autor, taught the first three lectures for 14.999. These three lectures dovetailed with 14.662 and were considered part of the 14.662 sequence.
- Acemoglu, Daron, and David Autor. “Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings.” In Handbook of Labor Economics . Vol. 4b. Edited by Orley Ashenfelter and David Card. North Holland, 2010, pp. 1043–171. ISBN: 9780444534521.
- Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou. “Introduction.” In Trade and Inequality . Edward Elgar Publications, 2015, pp. 1–27. ISBN: 9781783479474.
- Rosen, Sherwin. “The Theory of Equalizing Differences.” Chapter 12 in Handbook of Labor Economics . Vol. 1. Edited by Orley Ashenfelter and Richard Layard. North Holland, 1987, pp. 641–92. ISBN: 9780444878564.
Prerequisites & course information
Subject meets with 14.662A Prereq: 14.32 and ( 14.03 or 14.04 ) G (Spring) 5-0-7 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2015
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.