114-0563/01 – Labour market (TPA)

Gurantor department	Department of Economics	Credits	5
Subject guarantor	doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA	Subject version guarantor	doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA
Study level	undergraduate or graduate	Requirement	Choice-compulsory type B
Year	2	Semester	winter
		Study language	English
Year of introduction	2020/2021	Year of cancellation
Intended for the faculties	EKF	Intended for study types	Bachelor

Instruction secured by
Login	Name	Tuitor	Teacher giving lectures
FIL03	Ing. Lenka Johnson Filipová, Ph.D.
S1I44	doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA

Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of study	Way of compl.	Extent
Full-time	Credit and Examination	3+1

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

To clarify basic relations on labour markets To interpret investments in human capital To explain wage diferences on labour market To discuss unions influence at labour markets To analyze employment policy effects and to classify programmes To identify basic problems of the Czech labour market To describe active and passive labour employment in the European union

Teaching methods

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Tutorials

Summary

Subject The labor market deepens student's theoretical knowledge of the functioning of the labor market. Students are provided with theoretical information on employability, employers' and state labor market opportunities. It also covers the main instruments of passive and active employment policy in the EU countries and gives a comprehensive overview of the implementation of employment policy in the Czech Republic and its regions.

Compulsory literature:

EHRENBERG, Ronald and Robert SMITH. Modern Labor Economics. 13th Edition. Theory and Public Policy. Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367346973 BORJAS, George. Labor Economics. 8th Edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2019. ISBN 9781260565522 CAHUC Pierre, Stéphane CARCILLO and André ZYLBERBERG. Labour Economics. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-26-202770-0

Recommended literature:

BORJAS,George. We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative. Norton, 2016.ISBN 978-0-393-24901-9 EC. Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe. Anual review 2020. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2020. ISBN 978-92-76-27014-0 EC. Employment and Social Developments in Europe 2020. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2020. ISBN 978-92-76-21510-3

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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

Verification of the learning outcomes will be carried out in the form of a combined exam consisting of written and oral part. Active participation in exercises is required from full-time students.

E-learning

Other requirements

Students work out a seminar work on a given topic. The work is publicly advocated. Students in indirect teaching, in the form of self-study, analyze the results of empirical articles on lectured topics.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Labour demand 2. Labour supply 3. Investments in human capital and their importance for the labour market 4. Factors influencing the differences in labour income 5. Imperfect competition on the labour market 6. Labour market mobility 7. Migration 8. The influence of the state on the labour market 9. Minimum wage in the labour market 10. Unemployment 11. Employment policy 12. Labour market and employment policy of the European Union 13. Labour market in the Czech Republic 14. Employment policy in the Czech Republic

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2020/2021 Winter semester)

Task name	Type of task	Max. number of points (act. for subtasks)	Min. number of points	Max. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination	Credit and Examination	100 (100)	51
Credit	Credit
Examination	Examination	100	51	3

Valid from	Valid until	Mandatory attendence participation
Sep 10, 2021 3:04:27 PM	Apr 17, 2023 8:21:10 PM	The condotion for the credit is to prepare a seminar paper. The exam is combined composed of written and oral parts.

Mandatory attendence participation: The condition for the credit is to prepare a seminar paper. The exam is combined composed of written and oral parts.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: The condition for the credit is to prepare a seminar paper. The exam is combined composed of written and oral parts.

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2021/2022	(B0311A050005) Applied Economics	(S01) Economic Development	ED	P	English	Ostrava	3	Compulsory	study plan

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