Syllabus

Notes and Other Materials:

• Chapter 2, Minimum Wages and Labor Market Outcomes (Flinn, Revised 9/26/99)
• Appendix: Computation of Fixed Points (Flinn, Revised 10/02/99)

Programs and Data Sets:
 

• Computation of Reservation Wage in Continuous Time Search Model (text file)
• Search Data Set for Assignment Number 2 (Zip file)

Assignments:
 

• Number 1, Solving the Salop "Systematic Search" Model
• Number 2, Estimation of Continuous Time Search Model
• Number 3, Computation of Albrecht-Axell Search Model

• 1996 Midterm (In-Class)
• 1997 Midterm (In-Class)
• 1999 (Spring) Midterm (Take-Home)
• 1999 (Fall) Midterm (In-Class, Current Semester)