Below is a selection of lecture notes that approximate chronologically the topics and themes listed on the calendar. The first 10 lecture notes are by Prof. David Autor. The latter 10 were taken by Greg Fischer during Spring 2005 especially for OpenCourseWare.
First Part - Autor
Lecture note files.
| Lec # |
Topics |
| 1 |
Rising Earnings Inequality: Facts, Models and Hypotheses (PDF) |
| 2 |
Educational Production and Wage Structure (PDF) |
| 3 |
Technical Change, Organizational Changes and Wage Structure (PDF) |
| 4 |
Market Structure and Earnings Inequality (PDF) |
| 5 |
Trade, Inequality and Wages (PDF) |
| 6 |
Wage Density Decompositions (PDF) |
| 7 |
The Peculiar Case of the U.S. Minimum Wage (PDF) |
| 8 |
Equalizing Differences with an Application the Market for Workplace Disamenities (PDF) |
| 9 |
The Economics of Discrimination (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
| 10 |
Discrimination and Learning (PDF) |
Second Part - Piore
Lecture note files.
| Lec # |
Topics |
| 1 |
Introduction and Overview (PDF 1) (PDF 2) |
| 2 |
Structure of the Post WWII Labor Market, Typology of Different Modes of Behavior, Theorietical Comparisons (PDF) |
| 3 |
Discussion of Mas seminar, Typology of Behavior (PDF) |
| 4 |
Technological Change, Components, Theory to Explain Job Structure, Discussion of Adam Smith (PDF) |
| 5 |
Discussion of Kremer seminar, Fashion, Technological Change, Model of the Division of Labor (PDF) |
| 6 |
Sociological Theories of the Labor Force (PDF) |
| 7 |
Social Structure and the Emergence of the Trade Unions and the Postwar Institutional Structure (PDF) |
| 8 |
Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining, Postwar Labor Market Institutions (PDF) |
| 9 |
Other systems: Japan, France, Germany, Wage Determination, New Institutional Arrangements (PDF) |
| 10 |
Breakdown of the Old System, Attempts at Reconstruction (PDF) |