Labor Market Analysis

Description

This course covers diverse topics including labor supply, labor demand and productivity, wage determination and inequality, human resource management within firms, education and training, labor market discrimination, labor unions' roles, labor market flexibility, job search theory, unemployment, and the globalization of trade and labor markets. These topics are examined through both neoclassical economic approaches, emphasizing market forces like supply and demand, and institutional economic approaches, emphasizing social and cultural environments shaped by each country's industrialization, as well as the roles of labor unions and government.