Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy

A line of picketers wearing sandwich boards.

Airport workers strike at the Baltimore airport. (Image courtesy of jillyfish16 on Flickr.)

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MIT Course Number

15.677J

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

This subject discusses the broader trends in the labor market, how urban labor markets function, public and private training policy, other labor market programs, the link between labor market policy and economic development, and the organization of work within firms.

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Paul Osterman. 15.677J Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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