FSS:SPP501 Labour Market Theory - Course Information
SPP501 Labour Market Theory
Faculty of Social StudiesAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 12 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Tomáš Sirovátka, CSc. (lecturer)
PhDr. Helena Tomešová Bartáková, Ph.D., M.Sc. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies - Timetable
- Thu 8:00–9:40 P21
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Personnel Management and Organizational Development)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Social Policy)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Social Work)
- Social Policy and Social Work (programme FSS, N-SP, specialization Labour market, employment policy and human resources development)
- Course objectives
- To learn about the economic and sociological theories of the labour market and unemployments. The students should understand the relationships between economic and social mechanisms in the labour market. Make the students knowledgeable of the methods of analysis of the labour market.
- Syllabus
- Makaroekonomic perspective, growth and unemployment, inflation and unemployment, the types of unemployment. Parcial(micro) perspektive: labour supply, labour demand Static equilibrium in labour market, voluntary and involuntary unemployment. Dynamic equilibrium, theory of job search. Hysteresis of the labour market. Institucionál teories. Segmentation of the labour market. Neo-keynesian theories.
- Literature
- Burda M., Wyplosz Ch. Macroeconomics. A European Text. Oxford Univ. Press 1997,
- Samuelson P.A. , Nordhaus W.D.: Ekonomie, Praha : Svoboda,1991.
- Layard R. Nickell S., Jackman R. : The Unemployment Crisis. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995,
- Jordi Gual : The Social Challenge of Job Creation, Brookfield, Edward Elgar 1996,
- Assessment methods
- lectures, class discussion, homeworks and their presentations, reading 2 written tests, exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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