北京师范大学首都教育经济研究院

04.16-29短期海外文教专家项目:Janos Kollo教学课程
发布日期: 2015-04-10

课程主题:劳动经济学专题Labor Economics
 
课程内容:
 
Labor supply
 
1. Basics
       - The participation decision
       - Optimum and comparative statics graphically
       - The effects fixed costs
- Appendix: Taxes and labor supply
2. Topics
       - Deriving the static labor supply model
- Household production and labor supply
       - The life-cycle model of labor supply
       - Appendix 1: Added and discouraged workers
       - Appendix 2: Benefits and labor supply
3. Measurement
       - The classic three-equations model of labor supply
       - On estimation of the life-cycle model
- Appendix: Rules of thumb for judging the relevance of empirical estimates
 
SUPPLY OF SKILLS
 
4. Basics
       - The decision to study
       - Why some people study longer than others?
       - General on-the-job trainig
5. Topics
       - The Mincer-equation
       - The Roy model
       - The screening hypothesis
- Appendix: Innate abilities versus occupation-specific productivities
6. Measurement
       - Difficulties in measuring the effects of education
 
LABOR DEMAND
 
7. Basics
       - Short run
       - Long run withtwo factors of production: optimum and comparative statics
       - The Hicks-Marshall ‘laws’
       - Long run with more than two factors of production
       - Complications: monopoly, monopsony and fixed costs
8. Topics
       - A formal model of labor demand with two factors of production
       - Appendix 1: One factor of production
- Appendix 2: The scale effect under homogeneous production function
9. Measurement
       - Cobb-Douglas and translog demand functions
 
EQUILIBRIUM
 
10. Competitive labor markets
       - Marshallian equilibrium
       - Delays in adjustment–cobweb cycle
       - Equilibrium with search and matching
       - Supply or demand? The Katz-Murphy cross-products
       - Appendix: Frictionsandsearch unemployment
11. Non-competitive markets
       - Minimum wage regulation
- Unemployment insurance
       - Collective bargaining
       - The indirect effects of collective bargaining
       - Appendix 1: Taxes
       - Appendix 2: Open conflicts and strikes
12. Equilibrium with heterogeneuous labor
       - Hedonic wage theory
       - The effects of state intervention
 
课程安排:
课程时间
地点
416日(星期一)
6-8
科技楼310
423日(星期五)
6-8
科技楼310
430日(星期一)
6-8
科技楼310
507日(星期五)
6-8
科技楼310
429日(星期一)
Seminar
待定
 
 
 
Janos Kollo:
 
Affiliations:
Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Research advisor.
Eötvös University (ELTE), Budapest: lecturer
IZA, Bonn: research fellow
CEU, Budapest: research fellow
 
Education
PhD in economics 1989, Corvinus University, Budapest
„Doctor of the Academy of Sciences” 2009
 
Fields of research:
labor markets, accumulation and returns to human capital, wages, labor market regulations and their effects, informal economy
 
Other activities and positions:
Head of the Databank of the Institute of Economics
Head of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Committe of Human Resources
Member of the editorial board of Acta Economica
Member of Academia Europaea
 
Recent international project participation:
KNOWLEDGEFLOWS, European Research Council (ERC), 2014-
GRINCOH EU 7th Framework Program, 2012-
Several research programs of the International Labour Organization (ILO), 2008-
 
Personal
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1952
Divorced, two sons: Mihály (34) and Tamás (30). Grandson: Dániel (5).
 
Recent publications in international journals and refereed book series
 
Köll?, J (2015): Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary, Economics of Transition, Volume 23(2015), Issue 1, 130, DOI: 10.1111/ecot.12054. forthcoming in January.
 
Altwicker-Hámori S, Köll? J (2012): Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary", Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, Volume 18, Issue 5, 459-488 (2012)
 
Elek P, Köll? J, Reizer B, Szabó PA (2012): Detecting wage under-reporting using a double hurdle model. in: Lehmann, H.–Tatsiramos, K. eds., Research in Labor EconomicsVol 34: Informal Employment in Emerging and Transition Economies, Ch 4, 135–166 (2012)
 
Recent book chapters in English
 
Köll? J (2014): What do we know about public sector employment in Hungary?. in: The Hungarian Labour Market – Review and Analysis 2013, eds. K. Fazekas and L. Neumann, MTA KRTK & OFA, Budapest, December
 
Köll? J (2014): Public-private pay differential and the selection of entrants . in: The Hungarian Labour Market – Review and Analysis 2013, eds. K. Fazekas and L. Neumann, MTA KRTK & OFA, Budapest, December

 

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