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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Social Policy in EU

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0443/01
Abbreviation SPvEU
Course title Social Policy in EU
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator Ing. Ivana Vaňková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Objective, function, principles and instruments of social policy and its position in economy
2. Genesis of social policy on international scale
3. Disparity, equity and efficiency, concept of povery and methods of its measurement
4. Main principles and instruments for cooperation in social sphere in EU
5. Instruments of social dialogue
6. Strategies of modernisation of social protection in EU countries
7. Approaches to concept of social protection programs in EU member countries
8. Purpose, structure and basic characters of social protection programs - social security (social
situations, social benefits, administration of programs, financing) in Czech Republic
9. Cordination of social security in EU countries

Literature

BARR, Nicholas. The Economics of the Wefare State. 5th edition. Oxford University Press and Standford University Press,2012. ISBN 978-0-19-92981-8.
PENNINGS, Frans. European Social Security Law. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2011. pp. 328. ISBN 978-90-4113-867-5 .

Advised literature

PESTIEAU, Pierre. The Welfare State in the European Union: Economic and Social Perspectives. 184 p. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.