MPV_PTPZ Labour Market and Employment Policy

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta
jaro 2023
Rozsah
0/2/0. 5 kr. k = 1. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Mgr. Martin Guzi, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Dr. Magdalena Adamus (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Martin Guzi, Ph.D.
Katedra veřejné ekonomie – Ekonomicko-správní fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Biskupová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra veřejné ekonomie – Ekonomicko-správní fakulta
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
MPV_PTPZ/01: Út 10:00–11:50 P304, kromě Út 28. 3., M. Guzi
Předpoklady
The course has no formal prerequisites but it does require a willingness to engage with numbers and data, as well as some basic microeconomics.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
Classes have a seminar format with a strong focus on class discussion and cooperative learning. Students taking this course will learn from real-life examples to understand the key employment policy challenges and the role of labour market institutions.
The following topics will be discussed: employment and wage determination, income inequality, labour market flexibility, labour mobility and migration, work careers of university graduates, work-life balance, job satisfaction, cultural and social factors contributing to gender gaps in the labour market, income adequacy, precarious work, incentive pay, labour market discrimination, unemployment, undeclared work, and platform work.
Výstupy z učení
Students will learn to discuss, understand and tackle contemporary labour market problems and policy challenges. The course will put an emphasis on empirical research and encourage students to elaborate selective case studies into class presentations.
Knowledge, skills and competence you will learn:
• understand the role of labour market institutions
• analyse current policy questions related to labour markets
• work with international open databases and interpret data
• use of the course content in your own academic work, for example in analyses that are part of the master thesis
Osnova
  • 1. Labour market characteristics
  • • The purpose and motivation to work, labour market during the economic crisis, demographic development and its impact on the labour market, minimum wage vs reservation wage, job vacancy, Mincer equation and interpretation of coefficients, unobserved factors influencing the wage, Czech labour market characteristics (gender gaps, part-time contract, unemployment rate).
  • 2. Economics of Gender
  • • gender wage gap, gender employment gap, statistical discrimination, gender differences in education and field of study, consequences of high gender pay gap (poverty trap for women), explained and unexplained part of wage gap, Mathilda effect, sticky floor, glass ceiling.
  • 3. Cultural and social factors contributing to gender gaps in the labour market?
  • • the price of motherhood, son preference and its impact on the prospects of women in the society; why higher price of tea contributed to more women born in China over the years?, gender stereotypes, historical and geographical changes of gender concept, missing women, division of labour in the family, (unpaid) household work.
  • 4. Labour market discrimination
  • • hiring discrimination, correspondence study, beauty discrimination, anonymous job applications, discrimination in online markets
  • 5. Labour market segmentation and precarious work
  • • Decent work, non-standard work contracts, irregular working time, DDD jobs, zero-hour contracts, undeclared work.
  • 6. Income adequacy, minimum wage and living wage
  • • Employment effects of minimum wage, poverty trap, poverty persistence, living wage and the cost of living calculation, McWage Index, cross-country comparison of wage rates.
  • 7. Unemployment and job search
  • • job search and matching efficiency, job referrals, Beveridge curve, unemployment stigma, main strategies of unemployment elimination/reduction, regulation of the labour market, flexicurity, prison work.
  • 8. Income inequality
  • • Gini coefficient, 20:20 ratio, reforms reducing income inequality and poverty
  • 9. Labour market mobility and work migration
  • • theory of migration, Roy selection, international labour migration.
  • 10. Work careers of university graduates • earnings advantages from education, work careers of university graduates, why starting your career during a strong economy is better?
  • 11. Future of the labour market
  • • Robotization and automatization, platform work, life-long education, adult skills.
Literatura
  • IZA World of Labor is an online platform that provides policy analysts, journalists, academics and society generally with relevant and concise information on labor market issues.
  • Our World in Data
Výukové metody
Classes have a seminar format with a strong focus on class discussion and cooperative learning. We expect students to come to the classes. They are expected to participate in the class discussions and introduce the papers that they have read and also, their thoughts about them. If students miss classes not only will they not know the material, but they also deprive their classmates and lecturer of learning from them, and we lose the benefit of their contribution.
Metody hodnocení
You can earn 100 points and your grade will depend on the overall score. Grading is based on attendance (20 points), critical summary writing (10 points), policy project (30), online midterm exam (15 points) and in-class final exam (25 points). The basic condition for getting a grade (A-E) from the course is to gain at least 60 points overall and at least 15 points (60%) from the final exam. Grading: A 100 - 92 points, B 91 – 84 points, C 83 – 76 points, D 75 – 68 points, E 67 – 60 points, F less than 60 points
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
Instructor: Martin Guzi,
Office Hours: by appointment,
Email: martin.guzi@econ.muni.cz
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2009, podzim 2010, podzim 2011, podzim 2012, podzim 2013, podzim 2014, jaro 2016, jaro 2017, jaro 2018, jaro 2019, jaro 2020, jaro 2021, jaro 2022, jaro 2024, jaro 2025.