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課程資訊

課程名稱

勞動經濟專論
Topics in Labor Economics and Agricultural Labor

開課學期

107-2

授課對象

生物資源暨農學院農業經濟學研究所

授課教師

黃芳玫

課號

AGEC7068

課程識別碼

627 M4620

班次

學分

3.0

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

星期二7,8,9(14:20~17:20)

上課地點

農經會議室

備註

限碩士班以上
總人數上限：30人
外系人數限制：5人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1072AGEC7068_

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課程概述

1. Individual Labor Supply and Hired Farmworker
2. Household Labor Supply and Farm Household in Agriculture
3. Labor Demand
4. Labor Market Equilibrium
5. Human Capital and Agricultural Technology Changes
6. Wage Structure
7. Income distribution and Labor Mobility
8. Unemployment and Rural Labor Surplus
9. Rural Inequality and Rural-Push versus Urban-Pull Migration
10. Labor Union and Farmer’s Union

課程目標

This course provides the advanced theoretical and empirical analysis of agricultural and related nonagricultural labor market. Issues include demand for and supply of labors (especially farm workers and farm household), income distribution, investment in Human Capital, income inequality, labor migration and union.

課程要求

oral presentation
term paper

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

另約時間

指定閱讀

Articles assigned from journals such as the American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal Of Human Resources, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Political Economy, World Development, and from books such as Handbook of Labor Economics; Handbook of Agricultural Economics; Handbook of Population and Family Economics; Handbook of Development Economics.

參考書目

待補

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Oral presentation	30%
2.	Term paper	40%
3.	Discussion	30%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/19	introduction
第2週	2/26	4. Wages and Earning: Mulligan, Casey B. and Yona Rubinstein (2008), “Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages over Time,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123, 1061－1110.
第3週	3/05	Neuman, Shoshana and Ronald L. Oaxaca (2004), “Wage Decompositions with Selectivity-Corrected Wage Equations: A Methodological Note,” Journal of Economic Inequality, 2, 3－10.
第4週	3/12	Heckman, J.: Sample selection bias as a specification error, Econometrica 47 (1979), 153–163.
第5週	3/19	David, C., & Krueger Alan, B. (1994). Minimum wages and employment: a case study of the fast-food industry in new jersey and pennsylvania. American Economic Review, 84(4), 772-793.
第6週	3/26	Yuen, T. (2003). The Effect of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in Canada A Panel Study. Journal of Human Resources, 38(3), 647-672.
第7週	4/02	Spring break
第8週	4/09	Sabia, J. J., Burkhauser, R. V., & Hansen, B. (2012). Are the effects of minimum wage increases always small? New evidence from a case study of New York state. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 65(2), 350-376
第9週	4/16	All attend an international conference at Academia Sinica.
第10週	4/23	Gneezy, U., Niederle, M. & Rustichini, A. (2003). Performance in competitive environments: gender differences. Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(3) , 1049-1074.
第11週	4/30	Bound, John (1991) “Self-Reported Versus Objective Measures of Health in Retirement Models.” The Journal of Human Resources, 26(1):106–138.
第12週	5/07	Gneezy, U., Niederle, M. & Rustichini, A. (2003). Performance in competitive environments: gender differences. Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(3) , 1049- 1074.
第13週	5/14	1. Bound, John (1989) “The Health and Earnings of Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants.” American Economic Review, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 482–503, (June 1989) 2. Skoufias, Emmanuel and Susan W. Parker (2006) “Job Loss and Family Adjustments in Work and Schooling During the Mexican Peso Crisis,” Journal of Population Economics, 19: 163-181.
第14週	5/21	1. Bazen, S., & Skourias, N. (1997). Is there a negative effect of minimum wages on youth employment in France? European Economic Review, 41(3-5), 723-732. 2. Cullen, Julie Berry and Jonathan Gruber. (2000) “Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd out Spousal Labor Supply?” Journal of Labor Economics, 18(3): 546-572.
第15週	5/28	Morin, L. P. (2015). Do men and women respond differently to competition? Evidence from a major education reform. Journal of Labor Economics, 33(2), 443-491.
第16週	6/04	1. Kawaguchi, D., & Yamada, K. (2007). The impact of the minimum wage on female employment in Japan. Contemporary Economic Policy, 25(1), 107-118. 2. Oaxaca, R., 1973. "Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets," International Economic Review, 14(3), pp. 693-709.