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Mar 29, 2024
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ECON 38500 - Labor Economics
3.0 | LEC 3 3.0 | 3.0 | DIS 0 3.0 |

3.000 Credit hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture

Offered By: School of Management
Department: School of Mgmt Adm & Instr

Course Attributes:
S General Education, Upper Division

May be offered at any of the following campuses:     
      Northwest- Westville
      Northwest- Hammond
      West Lafayette

Learning Outcomes: 1. Distinguish the major determinants of labor market participation and hours worked. 2. Analyze how welfare programs and business cycles affect labor supply. 3. Derive the short and long term demand for labor. 4. Construct a detailed demand and supply model of the labor market. 5. Find the equilibrium labor market outcomes in the context of the neoclassical model 6. Analyze the role played by jobs' and workers' characteristics in generating wage differentials. 7. Develop a schooling model that explains human capital investment. 8. Distinguish factors that affect earnings inequality and labor market discrimination.


Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs:     
      Accounting-Cert
      Management-BSIM
      Economics-BS
      Management-BS
      Accounting-BS
      Economics-BA

Prerequisites:
(Undergraduate level ECON 25100 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level ECON E2010 Minimum Grade of C- or Undergraduate level ECON E1030 Minimum Grade of C-)

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