Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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The following are courses that Professor Ehrenberg is currently teaching or has taught recently. Please click on the appropriate link, if
applicable, to obtain a course syllabus/reading list and other course material.
- ILRLE6480 - Economic Analysis of the
University ( Fall 2020) - Seeks to illustrate the complexity of decision making in a nonprofit organization and
to show how microeconomic analysis in general, and labor market analysis in particular, can be usefully applied to analyze resource allocation
decisions at universities. Among the topics covered are financial aid, tuition, admissions policies, endowment policies, faculty salary determination,
the tenure system, mandatory retirement policies, merit pay, affirmative action, comparable worth, collective bargaining, resource
allocation across and within departments, undergraduate versus graduate education, research costs, libraries, athletics, and "socially
responsible" policies. Lectures and discussions of the extensive readings will be supplemented by presentations by Cornell
administrators and outside speakers who have been engaged in university resource allocation decisions or have done research
on the subject.
- ILRID 1500 - Freshman Colloquium (Fall 2012)
- This course is offered to acquaint new freshman students with some of the issues
and disciplines in the field
of industrial and labor relations, and, establish acquaintanceship among members of the ILR faculty and small,
randomly assigned groups of students.
The course includes a plant visit and several meetings early in the semester designed to introduce issues
encountered in studying the employment
relationship.
- ECON 7470/ ILRLE
7470 (Spring 2014) - A survey of
the econometric research on a wide variety of higher education
issues. Examples of the issues addressed include public and
private funding, financial aid and tuition policies, faculty
labor markets and Ph.D. production. While the emphasis is on the
American educational system, research from other countries may
also be discussed. The
goal of this course is to provide students with an up to date
treatment of where the literature is, to hone their skills as
empirical economists and ability to do independent research and
to suggest under-researched areas that they may pursue. Students
are assumed to have backgrounds in graduate microeconomic theory
and econometrics.
- ILRLE2400 - Economics of Wages and
Employment (Spring 2016) - Applies the theory and elementary tools of economics to the characteristics and
problems of the labor market. Considers both the demand (employer) and supply (employee) sides of the market to gain a deeper understanding
of the effects of various government programs and private decisions targeted at the labor market. Topics covered include employment demand,
basic compensation determination, education and training, benefits and the structure of compensation, labor-force participation and its
relation to household production, occupational choice, migration, labor-market discrimination, and the effects of unions.
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