Core curriculum
Angrist, J. D. and J. S. Pischke: Mostly harmless econometrics - an empiricists companion, 2009. Princeton University Press*.
Autor, D.: "U.S. Labor Market Challenges over the Longer Term" in October 2010. paper prepared for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors*.
Cahuc, P. and A. Zylberberg: Labor Economics, 2004. The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass*.
* See lecture plan for details on which sections that are included.
Supplementary readings, mostly used as examples in lectures
Ariely, Gneezy, Loewenstein and Mazar (2009) “Large Stakes and Big Mistakes”, Review of Economic Studies
Blanchard (2005) ”European unemployment: the evolution of facts and ideas” Economic Policy 21 (45): 5-59
Bratsberg, B., Raaum, O., Røed, K., 2010: When minority labor migrants meet the welfare state, Journal of Labor Economics
Doucouliagos and Stanley (2009) Publication Selection bias in Minimum-Wage Research? in British Journal of Industrial Relations 47 (2): 406-428
Freeman, R. B. (2005) What Do Unions Do? The 2004 M-Brane Stringtwister Edition, Journal of Labor Research Vol. XXVI (4)
Frey, B. S. and R. Jegen. 2001. Motivation Crowding Theory in Journal of Economic Surveys, 15(5): 589 – 611
Johansson, P. and M. Palme, 2005. Moral hazard and sickness insurance, Journal of Public Economics, 89, pp. 1879-1890
Levitt, S. and S. Dubner. 2005. Freakonomics A Rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. HarperCollins Publishers.
Røed, K. and S, Strøm. 2002. Progressive taxes and the labour market: Is the trade-off between equality and efficiency inevitable? in Journal of Economic Surveys, 16 (1).
Røed, K., Westlie, L., 2010. Unemployment insurance in welfare states: The impacts of soft duration constraints in Journal of the European Economic Association
Røed, K., Zhang, T., 2003. Does unemployment compensation affect unemployment duration? in The economic journal 113 (484)
Shavell and Weiss. 1979. The optimal Payment of Unemployment Insurance Benefits over Time in The Journal of Political Economy 87 (6), pp. 1347-1362 (introduction and conclusion only)
S. Markussen: A note on optimal unemployment insurance, explaining the argument of Shavell and Weiss (1979)
Markussen, S., Mykletun and K. Røed. 2010.The Case for Presenteeism, IZA WP 5343
Additional readings on econometric methodology
Angrist, J. D. and J. S. Pischke. 2010. The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics in Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (2), pp.3-30
Heckman, J.J. and J. A. Smith, 1995. Assessing the case for social experiments in Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 9, pp. 85-110
Leamer, E., 1983. Let’s take the con out of econometrics, in The American Economic Review, vol. 73, pp. 31-43.
A list of links to the articles above has been made available here