Economics 250A: Graduate Labor Economics I

Miscellaneous Readings

Bosworth, Barry, George L. Perry, and Matthew D. Shapiro. “Productivity and Real Wages: Is There a Puzzle?” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Vol. 1994, No. 1 (1994), pp. 317-344 

Chetty, Raj, John N. Friedman, Tore Olsen and Luigi Pistaferri “The E¤ect of Adjustment Costs and Institutional Constraints on Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Denmark” unpublished paper, Harvard University, 2009

Crawford, Vincent and Juanjuan Meng "New York City Cabdrivers’ Labor Supply Revisited: Reference-Dependent Preferences with Rational-Expectations Targets for Hours and Income"

Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester, and Michael Reich “Minimum Wage Effects across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties” Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming 

Lalonde, R. J., and R. Topel, "Labor Market Adjustments to Increased Immigration", in J. Abowd and R. Freeman, eds., Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991

Manoliy , Dayanand, Kathleen Mullen, and Mathis Wagner. “Risk Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify and Estimate a Structural Model of Retirement”  unpublished paper, University fo Chicago, April 2009.

Moretti, Enrico and Jeffrey Perloff. “Minimum Wage Laws Lower Some Agricultural Wages” Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series: 953, 2000

Robinson, Joan.  The Economics of Imperfect Competition  London:  MacMillan, 1938, chapter 26.

Sullivan, Dan.  “Trends in real wage growth” Chicago Fed Letter 115 (March 1997).