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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Labour market

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 156-0363/01
Abbreviation TPA
Course title Labour market
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA

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

Literature

CAHUC Pierre, Stéphane CARCILLO and André ZYLBERBERG. Labour Economics. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-26-202770-0.
EHRENBERG, Ronald and Robert SMITH. Modern Labor Economics. 12th Edition. Theory and Public Policy. Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978-0-13-346278-4 .

Advised literature

BORJAS, George. Labor Economics. 7th Edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. ISBN 978-1-259-25236-5.