Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Labour Market Economics A

Type of study	BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	156-0403/03
Abbreviation	ETP A
Course title	Labour Market Economics A
Credits	2
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. .
EHRENBERG, Ronald and Robert SMITH. Modern Labor Economics. Theory and Public Policy. Pearson Addison Wesley Companion, 2009. .
SIROVÁTKA, Tomáš a kol. Nejistoty na trhu práce. Boskovice: František Šalé - ALBERT, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7326-172-6.
ŠIMEK, Milan. Podpora zaměstnatelnosti znevýhodněných skupin obyvatel v České republice: Nové přístupy a efekty. Brno: Institut vzdělávání SOKRATES, 2010. ISBN 978-80-86572-66-6.
https://cs-cz.facebook.com/Národohospodáři-Ostrava-246212538805455/

Advised literature

BLOCK, Walter Labor Economics From a Free Market Perspectives. World Scientific, 2008. .
BROŽOVÁ, Dagmar Společenské souvislosti trhu práce. Praha: SLON 2003. 140 s. ISBN 80-86429-16-4.
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.
NEKOLOVÁ, Markéta Flexicurity – hledání rovnováhy mezi flexibilitou a ochranou trhu práce v České republice. Praha, VUPSV, 2008. 72 s. .
MAREŠ, Petr Nezaměstnanost jako sociální problém. Praha: SLON, 2002. 172 s. .

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