Labour economics is among the subjects where econometric research plays an especially important role - any modern labour text contains references to dozens if not hundreds of papers reporting results of empirical studies. Background Business economics students at the University of Lueneburg can choose among various fields in economics during their third and fourth year.
Students have the usual background in micro and macroeconomics, maths and statistics.
Furthermore, only few students take an introductory course in econometrics. Course outline The aim of the course is to familiarize students with doing empirical research on a PC using large scale micro data sets and econometric methods. The third session introduces the micro data set. These data are public use data available at low costs, and they are widely used in social science research. The data come as an SPSS-PC export file with a voluminous printed codebook of several hundred pages.