Summary should be of a paper in the reading list. The focus should be on the question of interest in the paper, what is the authors’ finding, what you have learned from the paper and what econometric estimation tools they used in estimation. The summary may be in outline or note form,

Chapter 1: Introduction (including Appendix on regression analysis) 2. Labor Demand
Chapter 3: Labor Demand
David, H., Manning, A. and Smith, C.L., 2016. “ The contribution of the minimum wage to US wage inequality over three decades: a reassessment.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(1), pp.58-99.
Jaimovich, N. and Siu, H.E., 2012. “The trend is the cycle: Job polarization and jobless recoveries (No. w18334).” National Bureau of Economic Research.
3. Labor Supply
Chapter 2: Labor Supply
Marco Bianchi, Bjorn Gudmundsson and Gylfi Zoega. “An Icelandic Natural Experiment in Supply- Side Economics”. American Economic Review, December 2001, pp. 1564-1579.
Heckman, J.J., 1977. Sample selection bias as a specification error (with an application to the estimation of labor supply functions).
Acemoglu, Daron, David H. Autor, and David Lyle. "Women, war, and wages: The effect of female labor supply on the wage structure at midcentury." Journal of political Economy 112.3 (2004): 497- 551.
4. Wage Determination
Chapter 4: Labor Market Equilibrium
David, H., Dorn, D. and Hanson, G.H., 2013. The China syndrome: Local labor market effects of import competition in the United States. The American Economic Review, 103(6), pp.2121-2168.
David, H., Manning, A. and Smith, C.L., 2016. The contribution of the minimum wage to US wage inequality over three decades: a reassessment. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(1), pp.58-99.
Imbens, Guido, Don Rubin and Bruce Sacerdote. “Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income on Labor Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players”. American Economic Review, September 2001 pp.778-794.
5. Wage Differentials and Human Capital
Chapter 5: Compensating Wage Differentials
Chapter 6: Human Capital
Chapter 11: Incentive pay
Bhuller, M., Mogstad, M. and Salvanes, K.G., 2014. “Life cycle earnings, education premiums and internal rates of return (No. w20250). ”National Bureau of Economic Research.
Angrist, Joshua and Alan Krueger. 1991. "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, pp. 979-1014.
Deming, D., Hastings, J., Kane, T. and Staiger, D., 2011. “School choice, school quality and academic achievement.”NBER Working Paper, 17438.
6. Topics in Labor Market Structure
Chapter 7. The Wage Structure Chapter 8. Labor Mobility
Chapter 9. Labor market discrimination Chapter 10. Unions
Lubotsky, D., 2007. “Chutes or ladders? A longitudinal analysis of immigrant earnings.” Journal of Political Economy, 115(5), pp.820-867.
DiNardo, John and David Lee. 2004. “Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001”. Quarterly Journal of Economics. pp. 1383-1441.
Chiswick, Barry. 2000. "Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis." IZA Discussion Paper 131. (www.iza.org) (published also in the book Migration theory : talking across disciplines)
Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L.P. and Eriksson, K., 2012. Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self- selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration. The American economic review, 102(5), pp.1832-1856.
Gruber, J., 1994. The incidence of mandated maternity benefits. The American economic review, pp.622-641.
Frandsen, B.R., 2014. Party bias in union representation elections: Testing for manipulation in the regression discontinuity design when the running variable is discrete. Manuscript, Brigham Young University, Department of Economics.