Topics in Personnel Economics
Instructor: Maia Güell (University of Edinburgh, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
The goal of this course is to study firm's decisions regarding their workers such as hiring, training, promotion or incentive policies. Ultimately, the goal is to understand the relationship between of these personnel policies and firm's performance as well as the functioning of the labor market. The course offers a framework for analyzing several human resources topics from an economic perspective. Traditionally, these topics were mainly studied from other points of view, primarily from psychological and sociological perspectives. In the last decades, economists have made substantial contributions to the understanding of these topics. Lectures will cover both micro theoretical models as well as recent empirical papers.
Course Outline
- Personnel practices and firm productivity
- Hiring decisions
- On-the-job training
- Provision of incentives through pay
- Firing decisions
Maia Güell is a Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh, an Associate Professor (on leave) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona GSE. She is also a Research Affiliate in the Labour Economics Programme of CEPR, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE). She is an elected executive committee member of the European Association of Labour Economists. Maia received a Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics and was a post-doctoral student at Princeton University. Her research interests are in theoretical and empirical labour economics. Her research interests include the incentives around labour market institutions and the consequences for labour market outcomes; motivation schemes for workers; gender differences in the labour market; and the measurement of intergenerational mobility using surnames.
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