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“The E¤ect of Adjustment Costs and Institutional Constraints on Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Denmark” unpublished paper, Harvard University, 2009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"

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Aversion & Retirement Decisions: Using Policy Variation to Identify and Estimate a Structural Model of Retirement”  unpublished paper, University fo Chicago, April 2009.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).