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 |
log-file |
do-file |
Box |
Pag |
1 |
Simulated data (Germany, 2001) |
1.2 |
8-9 |
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2 |
Card and Krueger (1994) |
2.2 |
40-43 |
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3 |
Di Nardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) |
3.4 |
67-69 |
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4 |
– |
– |
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– |
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– |
5 |
– |
– |
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– |
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– |
6 |
6.1 |
128 |
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7 |
Piketty (1998) |
7.1 |
146-147 |
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7 |
Naz (2004) |
7.2 |
147-148 |
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8 |
Ashenfelter and Rouse (1998) |
8.1 |
168 |
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9 |
– |
– |
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– |
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10 |
Boeri and Jimeno (2005) |
10.3 |
213-214 |
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11 |
11.3 |
241-242 |
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11 |
11.4 |
242-243 |
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12 |
– |
– |
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– |
– |
– |
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