Topic 1: Globalization and Labor
Reading list
Ppt slides
Background
handout
Topic 2: European Unemployment
Topic 3: Human Capital, Finance, FDI and Growth
Reading List
Discussion questions
Slides for King and Levine (1993)
Slides for
Alfaro et al. (2004)
Topic 4: Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy
Homework sets
Midterm
Student Presentations
Information
How to choose a
topic for the term paper
How to
read papers and write summaries
How to
write a literature review
Interesting stuff
GDP figures from World Bank
Growth figures from
World Bank
Data Links
World
Development Indicators (Union connection required)
International Financial Statistic (Union connection required)
Schaffer
Library Economics Databases
Penn World Tables
OECD Unemployment/Labor Market Institutions Data
Resources for
Economists
Growth Data
Sets (by Jonathan Temple)
World Bank Data Sets
(scroll down, under topics click on the relevant topic, then data sets)
Other links (Union connection required)
Econ lit
Proquest
JSTOR
Lexis-Nexis