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Labour market economics

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 114-0476/02
Abbreviation ETP
Course title Labour market economics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA

Osnova předmětu

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

E-learning

Povinná literatura

EHRENBERG, R.G., R.S. SMITH and K.F. HALLOCK. Modern Labor Economics. Theory and Public Policy. New York: Routledge, 2020. 782 p. ISBN 978-04-2932-720-9 .
European Commission. Employment ad Social Developments in Europe. Annual Review 2022. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2022. 135 p. ISBN 978-92-76-54212-4 .
European Commission. Labour Market and Wage Developments in Europe. Annual Review 2021. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021. 133 p. ISBN 978-92-76-43555-6 .

Doporučená literatura

BANSAK, C., N. SIMPSON and M. ZAVODNY. The Economics of Immigration. New York: Routledge, 2020. 470 p. ISBN 978-0-36-741616-4.
BORJAS, George. Labor Economics. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2020. 569 p. ISBN 978-1-26-000472-4 .
European Commission. Migrant Integration Statistics. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2021. 154 p. ISBN 978-92-76-27449-0 .