Course material:

Introduction

Lecture 

Introduction

 

Reading 

 

1.      Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace, NY Times (08/17/2015)

2.      Separated From Brother, Left to Toil Far From Home, NY Times (12/06/14)

 

3.      10 Countries With the Largest Projected Population Growth: American Exceptionalism, The WorldPost, 03/09/2014)

 

4.      Do Incentives Matter? The Case of Navy Recruiters, Beth Asch, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 02/1990

 

5.      Measuring Government Performance: Lessons from a Federal Job-Training Program, Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke, The American Economic Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, (05/1997)

 

6.      STEM Education: Preparing for the Jobs of the Future, (A Report by the Joint Economic Committee Chairman’s Staff Senator Bob Casey, Chairman, April 2012)

 

7.      International Comparisons of Annual Labor Force Statistics, 1970-2012, (International Labor Comparisons, 06/07/2013)

 

8.      International Unemployment Rates and Employment Indexes, Seasonally Adjusted, 2009-2013, (Bureau of Labor Statistics, Division of International Labor Comparisons, 08/01/2013)

 

9.      Worker Performance and Group Incentives: A Case Study, Daniel Hansen, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Oct., 1997)