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Calendar

Please note that although recitation sections are not included in the calendar, they meet once a week and are one hour long.

Lec # Topics
Part I - Prof. Autor
1 Changes in the Wage Structure and Inequality: Laying out Facts and Clearing Empirical Underbrush
2 The Theory of Skill Premia with an Application to Wage Structure Changes
3 Technical Change, Organizational Change and Skill Demands
4 International Trade and Outsourcing: Impacts on Employment, Workplace Organization, and Technology Adoption
5 Labor Market Institutions and Wage Compression
6 Self-Selection and the Labor Market
7 Group Differences in the Labor Market: The Evolving Gender Gap
8 Group Differences in the Labor Market: The Theory of Labor Market Discrimination
9 Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence
10 Labor Market Responses to Regulation
Part II - Prof. Piore
11 Introduction and Overview
12 Worker Motivation and Behavior
13 Technology, Job Characteristics and Structure
14 The Social Dimensions of the Labor Force

Social Class

Social Capital

Social and Institutional Networks

Identity and Careers
15 Labor Market Institutions

General

Trade Unions

Unions in the New Labor Market

Labor Market Institutions in the New Economcy

International Comparison