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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Labour Market economics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 156-0302/01
Abbreviation ETP
Course title Labour Market economics
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA

Subject syllabus

1. The Demand for Labour in Competitive Markets (The Short Run – Demand
Schedule, Demand for Labour in the Long Run)
2. Labour Supply (Labour Force Participation, Hours of Work of Effort)
3. Unemployment (Unemployment, Types of Unemployment, Unemployment Dynamics,
NAIRU)
4. Investment in Human Capital (The Nature of Human Capital, Age - Earnings
Profiles, Skills Acquired at School, Skills Acquired on the Job)
5. Earnings - Effects of Race and Gender on Earnings (Theories of
Discrimination, Measuring Discrimination).
6. Inequality of Earnings and Income
7. Unionized Labour Markets ( Unions: Grows and Goals, Union Methods: The
Bargaining Process, Union’s Impact on Labour Markets)
8. Migration (Theories of Migration, Migration Effects)
9. Employment Policy and Labour Market Policy (Definitions, Goals, Passive
and Active Programmes)
10. Labour Market and Employment Policy in the Czech Republic

Literature

BORJAS, George. Labor Market Economics. Mc GrawHill, 2010. ISBN 978-00-71048-47-7 .
EHRENBERG, Ronald and Robert SMITH. Modern Labor Economics. Theory and Public Policy. Pearson Addison Wesley Companion, 2009. ISBN 978-0-321-53373-9 .
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Advised literature

Block, Walter Labor Economics From a Free Market Perspectives. World Scientific, 2008. ISBN: 978-981-270-568-6 .
FILER, Randall K., Daniel S. HAMERMESH and Albert E. REES. The Economics of Work and Pay. 6th ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. ISBN 0-673-99474-0.
LAYARD, Richard, Stephen NICKELL and Richard JACKMAN. Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. 2 ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927917-9.
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