ECO5057S - Labour Economics

Course Information

Introduction

The aim of the Masters course in Labour economics is to cover many of the core theoretical approaches of modern labour economics as well as to explore how well these apply to the South African situation. Our intention is to be both theoretically rigorous and empirically relevant.

The teaching team

(in order of appearance)
Cecil Mlatsheni Cecil.Mlatsheni@uct.ac.za
Ingrid Woolard Ingrid.Woolard@uct.ac.za
Martin Wittenberg Martin.Wittenberg@uct.ac.za

Textbook

The text prescribed for this course is:
Pierre Cahuc and Andr Zylberberg (2004) Labor Economics, MIT Press.
This book is quite expensive. There is a copy on non-circulating loan in the library.

Course Requirements

There will be four tutorials/assignments to be handed in. They will count 12.5% each towards the final mark. The final examination will be weighted 50%.

Late submissions

Late assignments (unless late by prior permission of the lecturer concerned) will be penalised at the rate of five percentage points per day for four days. Thereafter the assignment will be scored zero.

Policy on plagiarism

Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If there is evidence that a whole passage has been lifted directly from another source without making it evident that this is the case, then the assignment will fail and the matter will be referred to the Head of Department for potential additional action. Note that it is frowned upon to quote more than a paragraph or two from one source.

In the case of applied computer work, if there is evidence of excessive cooperation between two or more students, then the mark of the offending work will be divided between the cooperating parties. Appeals against such rulings can be made to the course convenor (Martin Wittenberg), the convenor of the postgraduate programme (Edwin Muchapondwa) or the Head of School (Johannes Fedderke).