Labor Economics I

Lecture Notes

Prof. Joshua Angrist’s Lecture Notes

Unit 1 - Labor Market Facts and Trends

Labor Market Facts and Trends (PDF)

Key Ideas #1 (PDF) 

Unit 2 - Labor Supply

Labor Supply Context (PDF)

Static Labor Supply (PDF)

Home Production and Labor Supply (PDF)

Key Ideas #2 (PDF)

Unit 3 - Labor Demand and Demand-Side Institutions and Policies

Life Cycle Labor Supply (PDF)

Uber vs. Taxi (PDF)

Key Ideas #3 (PDF)

Unit 4 - Labor Demand and Demand-Side Institutions and Policies

Labor Demand (PDF)

Empirical Minimum Wage Effects (PDF)

Do Immigrants Take American Jobs? (PDF)

Key Ideas #4 (PDF)

Unit 5 - Human Capital

Human Capitalism (PDF)

Schooling, Experience, and Earnings (PDF)

Key Ideas #5 (PDF)

Prof. Daron Acemoglu’s Lecture Notes

Unit 6 - Labor Market Externalities

Labor Market Externalities (PDF)

Unit 7 - Social Mobility, Peer Effects, and Human Capital

Social Mobility, Peer Effects, and Human Capital (PDF)

Unit 8 - Career Concerns and Multitasking

Career Concerns and Multitasking (PDF)

Unit 9 - Efficiency Wages

Efficiency Wages (PDF)

Unit 10 - Investment in Skills

Investment in Skills (PDF)

Unit 11 - Search and Unemployment

Search and Unemployment (PDF)