The Economics of Imperfect Labour Markets

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