Labor Economics and Industrial Relations.

The Economics of Labor

The majority of labor transactions throughout much of history and a significant fraction of such transactions in many developing countries today are "coercive," in the sense that force or the threat of force plays a central role in convincing workers to accept employment or its terms. We propose a tractable principal-agent mode! of coercion, based on the idea that coercive activities by employe...

Essays in Labor Economics

Title of dissertation: ESSAYS IN LABOR ECONOMICS Ye Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeffrey Smith, Economics Professor Judith Hellerstein, Department of Economics My dissertation is composed of two essays in Labor Economics. The first chapter examines how employers learn about workers’ unobserved productivity when learning is asymmetric between incumbent an...

Lectures in Labor Economics

Essays in Labor Economics

The econometrics of unobservables: Applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics

This paper reviews the recent developments in nonparametric identification of measurement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to an observed distribution. The identification and estimation of measurement error models focus on h...