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Labour Economics

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

BODVARSON, Örn B. a Hendrik Van den BERG. The Economics of Immigration. Theory and Policy. Second Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4614-2116-0 .
BOERI, Tito. a Jan van OURS. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets. Second Edition. Princenton: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISNB 978-1-400-848-195.
CAHUC Pierre, Stéphane CARCILLO and André ZYLBERBERG. Labour Economics. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-26-202770-0.

Advised literature

BORJAS, George J. Labor Economics. 7th Edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2016. ISBN 978-1-259-25236-5.
EHRENBERG, Ronald and Robert SMITH. Modern Labor Economics. 12th Edition. Theory and Public Policy. Routledge, 2015. ISBN 978-0-13-346278-4 .


Language of instruction angličtina, angličtina
Code 156-0576
Abbreviation ETP
Course title Labour Economics
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D., MBA