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Labor economics study group

Reading Group: Handbook of Labor Economics and Autor's Reading List

We have read some chapters from a series of Handbook of Labor Economics. Each contributor chooses one that interests them. Since March 2020, we have been reading the papers on Autor's reading list, depending on each one's interests.

Contributor

• Xinwei-san
• Tung-san
• Ting-san
• Ike-san
• Nume-san

Chapter

DONE

Handbook of Labor Economics

• Vol.2 Chap.21: Segmented Labor Market
• Vol.3 Chap.43: Labor Market in Developing Countries
• Vol.3 Chap.49: New developments in the economic analysis of retirement
• Vol.3 Chap.50: Health, health insurance and the labor market
• Vol.4 Chap.11: Imperfect Competition in the Labor Market
• Vol.4 Chap.15: Human capital development before age five
• Vol.4 Chap.16: Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
• Vol.4 Chap.17: New Perspectives on Gender
• Vol.4 Chap.20: Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives

Autor's Reading List

• 1. Inequality: Some Facts and Questions
  • Aguiar and Bils (2015) Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality? AER
  • Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) Top Incomes in the Long Run of History. JEL
  • Beaudry, Green, and Sand (2014) The Declining Fortunes of the Young Since 2000. AER P&P
  • Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, and Turner (2014) Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? Recent Trends in Intergenerational Mobility. AER P&P
  • Corak (2013) Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Katz and Krueger (2017) Documenting Decline in U.S. Economic Mobility. Science
• 3. The Task Framework
  • Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018) Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work. NBER WP
  • Goos, Manning, and Salomons (2014) Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring. AER
• 4. Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and the Returns to Talent
  • Benson, Li, and Shue (2019) Promotions and the Peter Principle. QJE
  • Bertrand and Schoar (2003) Managing with Style: The Effect of Managers on Firm Policies. QJE
  • Bnnedsen, Nielsen, Perez-Gonzalez, and Wolfenzon (2007) Inside the Family Firm: The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance. QJE
  • Bloom, Brynjolfsson, Foster, Jarmin, Patnaik, Saporta-Eksten, Van Reenen (2019) What Drives Differences in Management Practices? AER
• 8. Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Markets
  • Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2019) When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men. AER Insights
  • Bursztyn, Fujiwara, and Pallais (2017) ‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments. AER
• 11. The Evolution of Household Structure
  • Goldin and Katz (2002) The power of the pill: Oral contraceptives and women’s career and marriage decisions. JPE
  • Persson (2020) Social Insurance and the Marriage Market. JPE

TO READ

• 11. The Evolution of Household Structure
  • TBA

SOMEDAY

• Vol.3 Chap.23: Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics
• Vol.4 Chap.1: Decomposition Methods in Economics
• Saez and Zucman (2016) Wealth Inequality in the United States Since 1913: Evidence from Capitalized Income Tax Data. QJE

Schedule

Date	Presenter	Paper
2019/09 (DONE)	Xinwei, Tung	Vol.2 Chap.21 Vol.3 Chap.43 Vol.3 Chap.49 Vol.4 Chap.16
2020/02/10 Afternoon (DONE)	Tung, Ike, Nume	Vol.4 Chap.11 Vol.4 Chap 16 Vol.4 Chap.15
2020/02/17 Afternoon (DONE)	Xinwei, Nume, Ting	Vol.3 Chap.43 Vol.4 Chap.15 (Cont.) Vol.4 Chap.20
2020/03/05 Afternoon (DONE)	Xinwei, Nume	8. Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Markets: Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2019), Bursztyn, Fujiwara, and Pallais (2017)
2020/03/12 Afternoon (DONE)	Ting, Ike	3. The Task Framework: Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018) NBER Goos, Manning, and Salomons (2014)
2020/03/19 Afternoon (DONE)	Tung, Xinwei	1. Inequality: Some Facts and Questions?: Beaudry, Green, and Sand (2014) Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, and Turner (2014) Katz and Krueger (2017)
2020/08/24 Afternoon (DONE)	Ike, Nume	1. Inequality: Some Facts and Questions?: Aguiar and Bils (2015) Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011)
2020/09/07 Afternoon (DONE)	Tung, Xinwei	4. Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and the Returns to Talent Bnnedsen, Nielsen, Perez-Gonzalez, and Wolfenzon (2007) Bloom, Brynjolfsson, Foster, Jarmin, Patnaik, Saporta-Eksten, Van Reenen (2019)
2020/09/24 Afternoon (DONE)	Ike, Nume	4. Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and the Returns to Talent Benson, Li, and Shue (2019) Bertrand and Schoar (2003)
2020/10/27 Afternoon (DONE)	Xinwei, Tung	11. The Evolution of Household Structure Goldin and Katz (2002) Persson (2020)
2021?	Nume, Ike	11. The Evolution of Household Structure