SYLLABUS

Study materials week 8-13

Block 3: Discriminatory behavior

November 13:  Beauty pays: Why attractive people are more successful

Reading:  (Chapters 2.1-2.3 on Audit studies and Correspondence testing)

Suggested video: Short video with Dan Hamermesh

Reading: Does it pay to be beautiful? 

Optional reading: Obesity and labor market outcomes 

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/econ/podzim2023/MPV_ARPM/um/144524768/Lecture8_beauty.pptx


November 20Hiring discrimination

Reading: Discrimination against female migrants wearing headscarves   (free slot)  (short popular article)

Suggested video:  TED video to watch 

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/econ/podzim2023/MPV_ARPM/um/144524768/Lecture9_discrimination.pptx


Block 4: How to achieve decent living standards for all

November 27: Dimensions of poverty

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/econ/podzim2023/MPV_ARPM/um/144524768/Lecture10_poverty_dimensions.pptx

Reading:  https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

Poverty in the Czech Republic: A Critical look at EU Indicators. (voluntary)

Suggested TED video (voluntary)

Self-employment and poverty in developing countries  

* Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics


December 4:  Income adequacy and living wage 

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/econ/podzim2023/MPV_ARPM/um/144524768/Lecture11_living_wage.pptx

Reading: 

Suggested video: Living on one dollar (website)

Reading (voluntary):

How are minimum wages set?



December 11: Future of labour

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/econ/podzim2023/MPV_ARPM/um/144524768/Lecture12_Student_presentations.pptx
The future of work: What you need to know?

I would like to make this last class interactive and interesting. Each student will contribute with a piece of evidence that you have to elaborate yourself. Please prepare 2-3 slides (using the template below the box) and max 3 minutes talk to present your contribution. 

Topic of presentation is The future of work: What you need to know. 

For example you may present what the future of work will mean for our happiness, decent working conditions, adequate wages, labor mobility ect. Present your personal opinion, be specific, support your ideas with available evidence, illustrate with a country example, and preferably show more pictures and few text in your slides. You shall formulate policy suggestions based on the presented evidence.

Upload your slides to homework folder by December 9 so I could arrange all slides in one presentation.

Activity is graded and you may obtain 5 points for this assignment.

* Create you presenation using this template and upload your slides to homework folder by Sunday (December 9) at the latest.

Chyba: Odkazovaný objekt neexistuje nebo nemáte právo jej číst.
https://is.muni.cz/el/econ/podzim2023/MPV_ARPM/op/muni-econ-prezentation-16-9en.potx


Presenters Key points 
  1Bc. Isabela Vybíhalová + Bc. Lenka Kostelníková The future of work: Intersection of work and happiness
2 Bc. Monika Jonášová
The impact of automation on labor market
3 Paulina Toledo Chávez  

The advantages and disadvantages of remote work

4 Isaac Kojo Ocran + Bc. Marek Imrich +  Issifu Ali
Significant labour market transformations in relation to personal happiness
5 Bc. Iva Matulíková  Navigating the Future: The Intersection of Work and Well-being
6 Bc. Tereza Böhmová + Bc. Petr Kostrej  INTRODUCTION OF 4DAY WORKING WEEK
7 Bc. Jan Metelka  Unlimited vacation days as a work benefit
8 Bc. Zbyněk Chládek + Johanna Meyer
The future of work, what you need to know – Gender pay gap in Germany 
9Chinedu Jeremiah Chukwuma
Universal basic income
10 Universal basic income
11 Bc. David Zlomek