Assessment Materials in Labour Economics, Employment and Unemployment
Ten multiple-choice questions based on two numerical examples of pay and effort, from a course on game theory.
Lecture handouts, slide decks, problem sets and a detailed reading list from a graduate-level course given in 2017.
One hundred multiple-choice questions from a legacy course that have been shared on GitHub. Answers can be viewed by replacing the filename FinalExam.html with FinalExam-Answers.html Despite the US origin of the content, only few very of the questions are US-specific.
Reading list, lecture handouts, and problem sets from a course given in 2014.
This archive uses presents feedback on multi-choice questions on 40 different topics, with varying numbers of questions in each. Many of the questions involve clickable images, with students using mouse clicks to indicate equilibria. Topics include: markets, firms, wages, national income, money, unemployment and inflation, government, and international. The official site is no longer running, so this link is to Archive.org's copy.
Reading list and assignments for Labor Economics and Public Policy, taught Spring 2006.
There are several interactive tests arranged here under the two topics of labour and education economics. Each test consists of ten questions, with each question on an individual page, using javascript to give feedback on individual responses. The labour economics quizzes are: Basic Principles; Job Search; Bargaining; Layard, Nickell & Jackman's Model of Unemployment; Keynesian Unemployment; Institutional Models; Minimum Wages; Hysteresis & Nonlinearities; Efficiency Wages; Discrimination; and Human resource management. The education economics quizzes are: Human Capital, Rates of Return, The Neoclassical Growth Model, Endogenous Growth, Class Size, School-to-Work Transition, Universities as Multiproduct Organisations, Innovative Funding Mechanisms, Performance Indicators, and Graduate Labour Markets.