Peter Kuhn
Professor of Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

My research examines a number of areas within labor economics, including trade unions, discrimination, immigration, displaced workers, unemployment, employment contracts, comparative labor markets, and the effects of information technology on labor markets. In addition to my research and teaching, I am currently serving as department chair. To relax, I putter in my garden here in Santa Barbara.

Courses:

Economics 100C Topics in microeconomic theory. Classic articles in the economics of information, for undergraduates interested in graduate work in economics.

Economics 150. This is an introduction to labor economics on the undergraduate level.

Economics 152 Personnel Economics. This is an advanced undergraduate course focusing on the applications of labor economics to personnel and human resources decisions within firms.

Economics 250A Graduate Labor Economics I. This is an introduction to labor economics on the graduate level. It focuses on the basics of labor supply and demand.

Economics 250B Graduate Labor Economics II. This course focuses on the determinants of wage structure, including compensating differentials, human capital, signalling/screening models, and immigrant assimilation.

Economics 594P This is a reading course in Personnel Economics on the graduate level.

Research:

Click here to access selected research papers.

I recently edited a volume of papers entitled Losing Work, Moving On: Worker Displacement in International Perspective, published by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

For a broader overview of what I have been up to you can look at my vita.

Data, do files and other supporting materials from various research papers are posted here.

Contact Information:

Post: Department of Economics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106-9210
Tel: 805 893 3666
Fax: 805 893 8830
email: pjkuhn@econ.ucsb.edu