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Labour Market Economics B

Summary

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.

Literature

LAYARD, Richard, Stephen NICKELL a Richard JACKMAN. Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market. 2. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-927917-9.

Advised literature

EHRENBERG, Ronald G. a Robert S. SMITH. Modern Labour Economics: Theory and Public Policy. 10th ed. Boston: Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2009. ISBN 978-0-321-53896-3.
FILER, Randall K., Daniel S. HAMERMESH a Albert E. REES. The Economics of Work and Pay. 6th ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. ISBN 0-673-99474-0.


Language of instruction angličtina
Code 156-0525
Abbreviation LME B
Course title Labour Market Economics B
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Jaromír Gottvald, CSc.