156-0376/02 – Labour economics (ETP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Applied Economics | Credits | 3 |
| 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 | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2019/2020 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
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
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
The course provides especially the exact knowledge of unemployment and government´s interventions in the labour market. The subject explains the relation between the unemployment and other important economic phenomenons such as minimum wage, real wage, economic equilibrium. Theory is based on the classical, neoclassical approach but also on other theories. The course provides the knowledge of the European Union labour markets, too. Development of the EU integration process since
the eighties and basic development tendencies in the labour market.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Validation of the learning outcomes will be realized in the form of a credit which consists of a written part. Full active participation in exercises is required from full-time students. The student must have elaborated and defended seminar work. Requirements for the course-unit credit are the preparation and successful presentation of the seminar paper and the successful completion of the credit test.
E-learning
The teacher's contact with the students will be realized through consultations, via email communication and through the LMS (Moodle) electronic learning system. Students usually communicate with each other via email communication.
Other requirements
Students work out a seminar work on a given topic. The work is publicly advocated.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
The course provides especially the exact knowledge of unemployment and government´s interventions in the labour market. The subject explains the relation between the unemployment and other important economic phenomenons such as minimum
wage, real wage, economic equilibrium. Theory is based on the classical, neoclassical approach but also on other theories. The course provides the knowledge of the European Union labour markets, too. Development of the EU integration process since the eighties and basic development tendencies in the labour market.
1. The competitive equilibrium
2. The unemployment theories
3. Theory of human capital
4. Theory od discrimination
5. Wage determinants
6. Migration theories and labour market
7. Labour market flexibility
8. Flexicurity
9. Holland's Theory of Career Choice
10. European employment strategy
11. Labour market - Denmark, Germany, UK
12. Labour market – Spain, Netherlands, Poland
13. Labour market in the Czech Republic
14. Active and passive labour market policy in the Czech Republic
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction