Registration
Anmeldezeitraum 20.01.2015 - 26.01.2015 über das LSF
Die Anmeldung für die Bachelor-Seminare während des Anmeldezeitraums funktioniert folgendermaßen:
- Sie loggen sich im LSF ein.
- Im Veranstaltungsverzeichnis für das WS 2014/2015 wählen Sie Bachelor Hauptfach/Wirtschaftswissenschaften/7900 Seminare (Direktlink)
- Sie klicken die Veranstaltung "Anmeldung zu den Seminaren des Sommersemesters 2015 (Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften)" an (die Veranstaltung wird erst im Anmeldezeitraum freigeschaltet).
- Sie folgen den Hinweisen in der Beschreibung (unten auf der Seite).
Description
The seminar puts a focus on labor market institutions and labor market policies. In particular, it highlights the impacts of institutions operating in imperfect labor markets. Topics to be covered include minimum mages, unions and collective bargaining, anti-discrimination legislation, regulation of working hours, early retirement plans, family policies, education and training, migration policies, employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, active labor market policies, and payroll taxes. The aim of the seminar is to familiarize students with recent insights from the Economic literature on the effectiveness and redistributive properties of these policies.
Schedule
The seminar will take place as a block seminar on June 26 and June 27, 2015, 8 am - 6 pm (Room: F208). A preliminary session will take place on April 24, 2015, 10-12 am (Room: F208).
Assessment
For Bachelor students who intend to write a Bachelor thesis: presentation of the outline (short paper) in class and bachelor thesis in the following semester. For Bachelor students who do not intend to write a Bachelor thesis: completed seminar paper at the time of the seminar.
Assignment of Topics
After you have received the confirmation that you will participate in the seminar, please send an e-mail with a list of your five most preferred topics (in the form of a top-five list) to Ms. Hadjiani: Gundula.Hadjiani@uni-konstanz.de. Look at the list of topics and the references provided below and set up your list carefully.
Please also indicate whether you intend to write a Bachelor thesis.
After you have been assigned a topic, please try to familiarize yourself with the topic as soon as possible. Pareto-improving reallocations of topics are possible until two weeks after the preliminary session.
Topics and Introductory Literature
In addition to the papers listed below, the textbook by Boeri and van Ours (2013) provides an introduction to each topic of the seminar.
Boeri, T. and van Ours, J., The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets, 2013, Princeton University Press, second edition.
1. Minimum Wages
Card, D., and A. Krueger. 1994. Minimum wage, and employment: A case study of the fast food industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. American Economic Review 84(4):772–93.
2. Unions and Collective Bargaining
Card, D. 2001. The effects of unions on wage inequality in the U.S. labor market. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54(2):296–315.
3. Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Rouse, C. and C. Goldin. 2000. Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians. American Economic Review, 90(4):715-741.
4. Regulation of Working Hours
Crépon, B., and F. Kramarz. 2002. Employed 40 hours or not employed 39: Lessons from the 1982 mandatory reduction of the workweek. Journal of Political Economy 110(6):1355–89.
5. Early Retirement Plans
Bratberg, E., T. H. Holmås, and Ø. Thøgerson. 2004. Assessing the effects of an early retirement program. Journal of Population Economics 17(3):387–408.
6. Family Policies
Bauernschuster, S. and M. Schlotter. 2015. Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments. Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.
7. Education and Training
Schwerdt, G., D. Messer, L. Woessmann and S. Wolter. 2012. Labor Market Effects of Adult Training Vouchers: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. Journal of Public Economics 96(7-8), 569-583.
8. Migration Policies
Hunt, J. 2006. Staunching emigration from East Germany: Age and the determinants of migration. Journal of the European Economic Association 4 (5):1014–37.
9. Employment Protection Legislation
Boeri, T., and J. Jimeno. 2005. The effects of employment protection: Learning from variable enforcement. European Economic Review 49(8):2057–77.
10. Unemployment Benefits
Lalive, R., J. C. van Ours, and J. Zweimüller. 2005. The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment. Journal of the European Economic Association 3(6):1386–1417.
11. Active Labor Market Policies
Black, D. A., J. A. Smith, M. C. Berger, and B. J. Noel. 2003. Is the threat of Reemployment Services more effective than Services itself? Evidence from random assignments in the UI system. American Economic Review 93(4):1313–27.
12. Payroll Taxes
Eissa, N. O., and J. Liebman. 1996. Labor supply responses to the Earned Income Tax Credit. Quarterly Journal of Economics 111(2):605–37.