“ Relevance of 2-Sector Production Model in Trade Theory.” Journal of Political Economy, V.85-#5, 909-35. “ The Structure of Simple General Equilibrium Models.” Journal of Political Economy, V.73-#6, 557-72.
Lecture 2: Traditional GE of Trade & Wages Gopinath eds, Handbook of International Economics.
“ Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization,” in Helpman, K. “ The ‘Task Approach’ to Labor Markets an Overview.” Journal of Labor Market Research, V.3, 185-99. “ Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings,” in Card and Ashenfelter eds, Handbook of Labor Economics. “ Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality,” in Ashenfelter and Card, eds, Handbook of Labor Economics. “ The Global Distribution of Income,” in Atkinson and Bourguignon eds, Handbook of Income Distribution. “ Post-1970 Trends in within-Country Inequality and Poverty: Rich and Middle-Income Countries,” in Atkinson and Bourguignon eds, Handbook of Income Distribution. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization. Lecture 1: Course Introduction & Review of Basic Frameworks Please try to do (some) readings already before the course-week starts. But don’t wait until the last minute, by then it is usually too late. To ensure that topics are well-established and suitable for the course, I require a proposal due no later than the fifth meeting of the course. Broadly speaking, I expect papers in the 25-35 page range. These papers must be original work, plagiarism will not be tolerated. Every member of the course is required to produce a research paper on some aspect of the effect of globalization on labor markets and/or international inequality. Depending on the number of people registered, we might be able to get two presentations per person.
Impacts of globalization syllabus professional#
However, partly as a way to induce discussion and partly to develop the skills of presentation that you will need as professional academics, everyone will present at least one of the research papers on the syllabus. There are far more papers on the syllabus than we can discuss in any detail. That is, while I will present lectures on basic background and results in each topic, I expect there to be active discussion of the assigned material. The attached syllabus contains live links to those papers.Ĭlass participation. Readings for the course will be drawn from the classic and current research papers on the topics. In this course, although the main focus will be on trade, we will also develop some of the main lines of research on the labor market effects of migration, in both cases emphasizing the links between theoretical and empirical research.Įvaluation: Your performance in this course will be evaluated on the basis of class participation (worth 20%), presentation of published papers (worth 30%) and a research paper (worth 50%). Work in these fields is often seen as in conflict. The appropriate theoretical and empirical tools for the study of these issues is distributed more-or-less equally between trade and labor economics. Trade and migration seem to be the two flash-points for these politics. The rise of anti-global populism around the world renders these issues even more important. These changes affect both the distribution of economic activity and the returns from that activity, both between and within nations. There is considerable evidence that, since sometime in the 1980s at the earliest, a fundamental change in globalization has occurred. The relationship between economic globalization and economic inequality is an issue of first-rate significance scientifically, politically and socially. Professor: Douglas Nelson Office: Tilton 108 (Murphy Institute) Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30-5:30 email: Webpage: WTI PhD COURSE Globalization, Labor Markets & Inequality 28 June – 09 July 2021