ECON 150

Labor Economics

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Supply and demand for labor. Analysis of government, union, and other constraints on competitive system of wage determination. Wage level and structure. Wages and human capital theory.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 11, 101, 103. Enforced corequisite: course 150L.

BruinTree reads · Prerequisite

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BruinTree reads · Corequisite

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ECON 150L

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 150

ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
- ECON 1Principles of Economics
- MATH 31ADifferential and Integral Calculus
  - MATH 1Precalculus
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

ECON 150

ECON 150LLabor Economics Laboratory
- ECON 150Labor Economicsanother path to it
ECON 151Topics in Labor Economics

2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.