ILRLE 5440 - [Labor Market and Personnel Economics]

Fall or spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Next offered 2014-2015. (Offered alternate even years) Offered in New York City. Enrollment limited to: M.P.S. students in New York City.

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Four-module course in which the first module covers the basic elements of supply and demand in the labor market, the second and third modules cover the “new personnel economics” (emphasizing economic issues in a firm that relate to selecting, training, assigning, motivating, and compensating workers), and the final module covers key institutions and economic security issues (including unemployment, pensions, disability, discrimination, and unions). The goals of this course are for students to learn to analyze both business and public policy problems, taking into account basic principles of economic theory and the relevant institutional environments.