The Economics of Imperfect Labour Markets

September 2008

Tito Boeri and Jan van Ours

Princeton University Press

Lecture slides and datasets

Introduction

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, with the exception of the occasional reference to competitive labor markets like that of the United States. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets is the only textbook to focus on imperfectly competitive labor markets and to provide a systematic framework for analyzing how labor institutions function and interact in these markets.

The book has been positively reviewed by the Journal of Economic Literature and International Journal of Industrial Relations.

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit this page on Princeton University Press website.

Chapters’ presentations

Chapter 1	Overview
Chapter 2	Minimum Wages
Chapter 3	Unions and Collective Bargaining
Chapter 4	Payroll Taxes
Chapter 5	Regulation of Working Hours
Chapter 6	Early Retirement Programs
Chapter 7	Family Policies
Chapter 8	Education and Training
Chapter 9	Migration Policies
Chapter 10	Employment Protection Legislation
Chapter 11	Unemployment Benefits
Chapter 12	Active Labor Market Policies
Chapter 13	Institutional Interactions

Datasets, Stata log-files and do-files (under construction…)

*Chapter*	*Dataset*	Link to original article	*log-file*	*do-file*	*Box*	*Pag*
1	Simulated data (Germany, 2001)	link	germany2001.log	germany2001.do	1.2	8-9
2	Card and Krueger (1994)	link	card.log	card.do	2.2	40-43
3	Di Nardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996)	link	dfl.log	dfl.do	3.4	67-69
4	–	–		–		–
5	–	–		–		–
6	Bratberg, Holmås, and Thøgerson (2004)	link	bratberg.log	bratberg.do	6.1	128
7	Piketty (1998)	link	piketty.log	piketty.do	7.1	146-147
7	Naz (2004)	link	naz.log	naz.do	7.2	147-148
8	Ashenfelter and Rouse (1998)	link	ashenfelter.log	ashenfelter.do	8.1	168
9	–	–		–
10	Boeri and Jimeno (2005)	link	boeri.log	boeri.do	10.3	213-214
11	Van Ours and Vodopivec (2006)	link	vanours.log	vanours.do	11.3	241-242
11	Lalive, van Ours, and Zweimuller (2006)	link	lalive.log	lalive.do	11.4	242-243
12	–	–		–	–	–

Index on the strictness of migration policies

In Table 9.1 (Chapter 9 – Migration Policies) is included an index on the strictness of migration policy in 12 European countries. For further details on how the idex is computed, please visit the this webpage.

Errata can be downloaded here.

Last update: November 23rd, 2010