劳动经济学硕士阶段阅读文献集 (Reading List)

补充  Firm Specific capital

Lazear, Edward, “Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill Weights Approach.” NBER Working Paper No. 9679, May 2003.

Prendergast, Canice, “The Role of Promotion in Inducing Specific Human Capital Acquisition”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108(2), May 1993, 523-534.

Jacobson, Louise S., Robert Lalonde and Daniel G. Sullivan, “Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers.” American Economic Review, 83(4), 1993, 685 – 709.

Altonji, Joe and R. Shakotko, “Do Wages Rise With Seniority?” Review of Economic Studies, 54, 1987, 437-459. 10/29/03 Autor_syllabus_rev.doc 2

Topel Robert, “Specific Capital, Mobility, and Wages: Wages Rise with Job Seniority” Journal of Political Economy, 99(1), February 1991, 145-76.

Topel Robert and Michael Ward, “Job Mobility and the Careers of Young Men,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107 (2), May 1992, 439-479.

Abraham Katherine and Henry Farber, “Job Duration, Seniority, and Earnings,” American Economic Review, 1986, 278-297.

补充 Information in Labor Markets: Self-Selection, Signaling

Roy, D. A.. “Some Thoughts on the Distribution of Earnings,” Oxford Economic Papers, 3(2), 1951, 235-46.

Borjas, George, “Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants,” American Economic Review, 77(4), 1987, 531-53.

Heckman, J. and B. Honore, “The Empirical Content of the Roy Model,” Econometrica, 58(5), 1990, 1121-49.

Salop, Joanne and Steven Salop, “Self-Selection and Turnover in the Labor Market,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 90(4), November 1976, 619-627.

Weiss, Andrew, “Human Capital and Sorting Models,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(4), Autumn 1995, 133-154.

Spence, Michael, “Job Market Signaling,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 87(3), August 1973, 355-374.

Tyler, John, Richard J. Murnane and John Willett, “Estimating the Labor Market Signaling value of the GED,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 115(2), May 2002, 431-468.

Lang, Kevin, and David Kropp, “Human Capital versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 101, 1986, 609-624.

Bedard, Kelly, “Human Capital versus Signaling Models: University Access and High School Dropouts,” Journal of Political Economy, 109(4), 2001, 749 – 775.

补充 Job Search,  Unemployment and Turnover
D.Mortensen,"Job Search and Labor Market Analysis," HLE,Vol.2,1986.

N.Kiefer and G.Neumann,"An Empirical Job-Search Model, with a Test of the Constant
Reservation-Wage Hypothesis," JPE,February,1979.

T.Lancaster,"Econometric Models for the Duration of Unemployment"
Econometrica,July,1979.

K.Wolpin,"Estimating a Structural Search Model: The Transition from School to Work,"
Econometrica,July 1987.

R.Hall,"The Importance of Lifetime Jobs in the Economy," AER,1982.

J.Mincer and B.Jovanovic,"Labor Mobility and Wages," in Studies in LaborMarkets,
ed.S.Rosen,1981.

R.Topel,"Job Mobility, Search, and Earnings Growth," in Research in Labor Economics, ed.
R.Ehrenberg, Vol.8,1986.

补充 Labor Supply and Taxes

J.Hausman,"Labor Supply," in How Taxes Affect Economic Behavior, eds. H.Aaron and
J.Pechman, 1981.

J.Hausman,"The Econometrics of Nonlinear Budget Sets," Econometrica, November 1985.

T.MaCurdy, D.Green, and H.Paarsch,"Assessing Empirical Approaches for Analyzing Taxes
and Labor Supply," JHR, Summer 1990.

R.Moffitt,"The Econometrics of Kinked Budget Constraints," JEP, Spring 1990.

B.Bosworth and G.Burtless, "Effects of Tax Reform on Labor Supply, Investment, and Saving,"
JEP, Winter 1992.

N.Eissa,"Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women," NBER WP 5023, February 1995.

M. Feldstein, "The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Study of th 1986 Tax
Reform Act." JPE, June 1995.

R. Blundell, A. Duncan, and C.Meghir, "Estimating Labor Supply Responses Using Tax
Reforms," Econometrica, November 1998.

R.Moffitt and M.Wilhelm, "Taxation and the Labor Supply Decisions of the Affluent.," in Does
Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich, ed. J. Slemrod, 2000.

开始的就是威斯康辛大学麦迪孙分校经济系主任John Kennan推荐给威斯康辛大学劳动经济学研究生阅读的reading list吧。其实严格上说不是给硕士生的而是给博士生入门的。博士生也是graduate student 的吧。个人认为如果能够把补充前面的经典文献认真读个几遍已经很不错了。对于补充的文献应该是版主自己加的吧，也应该是版主读过的相关paper吧。如果学有余力多多涉及文献也许很好，但也不完全是必要的。

在reading list之前John Kennan是这样说的：
This is a list of stuff you would like to have read by the end of this semester. You will not read it all (I have not read it all, and it seems unlikely that anyone has read it all). If in doubt, read less, more carefully. But it is good to browse through many papers quickly early in the semester, to get an initial impression of where things fit in, and to get ideas for research papers. Asterisks are used to mark things that seem important, but this is just a rough guide. You should not infer that papers not listed are not worth reading: lists like this are subjective, and sometimes just whimsical.

novice07 发表于 2009-9-6 15:00
开始的就是威斯康辛大学麦迪孙分校经济系主任John Kennan推荐给威斯康辛大学劳动经济学研究生阅读的reading list吧。其实严格上说不是给硕士生的而是给博士生入门的。博士生也是graduate student 的吧。个人认为如果能够把补充前面的经典文献认真读个几遍已经很不错了。对于补充的文献应该是版主自己加的吧，也应该是版主读过的相关paper吧。如果学有余力多多涉及文献也许很好，但也不完全是必要的。

这个Reading list 主要是推荐给高年级硕士生看的。 其实好多硕士专业不是啃完一本教材就可以的， 而是需要泛读不少论文才能理解教学中某一主题的内容， 这是很多大学教学、考试的实践。 当然， Reading list 也可以给博士入门阶段使用， 但是仔细看看上面列出的主题， 会发现这些主题基本是硕士阶段学习的内容或者是扩展， 离真正研究的主题还是有距离的。所以， 这个Reading List 是教学用的， 而不是研究用的， 这点必须清楚。

开始部分主要是John Kennan的Reading list， 这是一个很好的基础。补充了几个劳动经济学与现代微观、宏观相结合的领域， 这些主题经常不是以劳动经济学而是以其他课程的名义出现在课程表上，比如合同理论、信息/激励理论、税收理论等等。 这些课程当然是硕士阶段的。之所以补充， 是因为不同学校开设的课程、课程的重点是不同的。

这个Reading list 的设计初衷， 是希望给有志于研究的硕士生对劳动经济学硕士阶段各主要主题有一个比较全面、核心的认识， 重新打一遍基本功。 这是个参考资料集， 主题比较全面，不必全部阅读， 但知道在那里可以找到主要参考资料很重要。

欢迎不同学校的朋友一起来添加这份名单。

Migration：

Todaro, M. (1969) 'A model of labor, migation and urban unemployment in less developed countries',
American Economic Review, 59:138-148.
Todaro, M. (1980) 'Internal migration in developing countries: A survey', in: R.A. Easterlin, ed.,
Population and economic change in developing countries. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Todaro, M. (1984) 'Urbanization in developing nations: Trends, prospects, And policies', in: P.K.
Ghosh, ed., Urban development in the third world. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Male-Female Wage Differentials：

Nancy Qian, 2008. "Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 123(3), pages 1251-1285, August.

具有一定高度，有没有pdf或者word版的？谢谢。

非常感谢！

很不错，谢谢啦……