VPLn4402 Employment and Labour Market Policy

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 12 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Tomáš Sirovátka, CSc. (lecturer)
PhDr. Markéta Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Josef Horňáček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Hora, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Tomáš Sirovátka, CSc.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Wed 8:00–9:40 U53
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 2/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students into principles, goals, measures and effects of employment and labor market policies. Promoting students’ insight into interrelations between those economic and social processes that have impact on employment policy functioning. To introduce students into methods of labor market analysis and labor market policy analysis as well as into principles of making and implementing measures and projects in the field of employment.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students: (1) understand the meaning of using individual employment policy tools in relation to labor market problems, (2) are able to identify the most appropriate tools, (3) are able to analyze the effects of active policy measures, and (4) are able to propose specific solutions to labor market problems.
Syllabus
  • 1) Implications for labor market policy resulting from labor market theory
  • 2) Employment policy: macroeconomic regulation of labor demand
  • 3) Labor market policy
  • 4) The role of trade unions in the regulation of the labor market
  • II. Passive and Active Labor Market Policy
  • 5) Unemployment income compensation and analysis of unemployment income compensation schemes
  • 6) Analysis of unemployment compensation schemes 7) Development of an active labor market policy
  • 8) Active labor market policy - principles and types of measures
  • 9) Labor market policy in the Czech Republic and its specifics
  • 10) Employment regimes in Europe, interaction of active policy with other areas of public policy
  • 11) Effects of labor market policy
  • 12) Analysis of the effects of labor market policy
Literature
    required literature
  • Brown, A. J. G., & Koettl, J. 2015. Active labour market Programmes: Employment gain or fiscal drain? Bonn, Germany: The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40172-015-0025-5
  • Fiorito J., Jarley, P. 2008. Trade Union Morphology. In: The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations, SAGE Publications Ltd., pp. 189 - 208
  • OECD 2005. Employment Outlook. Chapter 4: Labour Market Programmes and Activation Strategie: Evaluating the Impacts (www. oecd.org)
  • Clasen J., Clegg, D. 'Regulating the risk of unemployment. National adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe'. Oxford University Press 2011, chapter 1 Unmployment protection and labour market change: towards triple integration (pp. 1-12
  • Sirovátka, T., Rákoczyová, M. 2021. Front-line work in activation and targeting of re-qualification programmes: lessons from the Czech Republic. European Journal of Social Work
  • Calmfors L. Active Labour Market Policy and Unemployment. A Framework for the Analysis of Crucial Design Features. Paris, OECD 1994
  • P. A. Samuelson, W. D. Nordhaus: Ekonomie: kapitoly Nezaměstnanost, Inflace, nezaměstnanost a inflace, heslo Okunův zákon a hospodářský cyklus.
  • O. Hora, M. Horáková, T. Sirovátka Diversity of youth policy regimes and early job insecurity – towards an integrated approach, chapter 7 + Policy adaptation to address early job insecurity in Europe, chapter 8, in Youth unemployment and job insecurity
  • Boxal, P. 2008. Trade Union Strategy. In: The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations, SAGE Publications Ltd., pp. 209 – 224
  • SIROVÁTKA, Tomáš. When workfare fails: post-crisis activation reform in the Czech Republic. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Emerald, 2016, roč. 36, 1-2, s. 86-101.
  • Sirovátka, T. Czechia: political experimentation or incremental reforms? ch. 11 in S. Theodoropoulou (ed) 2018. Labour Market Policies in The Era of Pervasive Austerity. A European Perspective. Bristol, Chicago: Policy Press, pp.253-276.
  • Berkel, R.; Graaf, W.; Sirovátka, T. (eds.). 2012. Governance of the Activation policies in Europe. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Volume 32, No 5/6,
  • W. de Graaf, T. Sirovátka 2012. Governance reforms and their impacts on the effects of activation policies International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 32, 5/6: 353-363.
  • Horák, P. 2014. Role lokálních projektů v české politice zaměstnanosti. Brno: MUNIpress
  • Bonoli, G. 2011. Active Labour Market Policy in a Changing Economic Context. In Clasen, J.; Clegg, D. (eds.) Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-industrial Labour Markets in Europe. Oxford: University Press (318-332)
  • Zákon č. 435/2004 Sb., par. 1 – 66
  • Mareš P.: Nezaměstnanost jako sociální problém. SLON, 1994, s. 99-141.
  • Layard R. Nickell S., Jackman R.: The Unemployment Crisis. Oxford Univ. Press, 1995, s. 90-109.
  • Hora, O., Sirovátka, T. 2020 Why targeting matters: The apprenticeship program for youth in the Czech Republic, Social Policy and Administration, 54 (7): 1198-1214
  • Tomáš Sirovátka and Ondřej Hora Czech Republic: activation, diversification and marginalization in Clasen J., Clegg, D. 'Regulating the risk of unemployment. National adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe'. Oxford University Press 201
  • OECD 2012. Employment Outlook. Chapter 1: Waiting for the Recovery: OECD Labour Markets in the Wake of the Crisis, Chapter 2: What Makes Labour Markets Resilient During Recession?, viz www.oecd.org
  • Růst, konkurenceschopnost, zaměstnanost (Bílá kniha). Praha, Ustav mezinárodních vztahů, 1995, s. 9-55, 113-147.
  • Sirovátka T.: Politika pracovního trhu, MU v Brně, 1995.
  • Nicaise I. et al. „Pitfalls and Dilemmas in Labour Market Policies for Disadvantaged Groups and How to Avoid Them.“ European Journal of Social Policy 1995, 5: 199-217.
  • Sirovátka, T., Horáková, M., Horák, P. 2014. Česká politika zaměstnanosti v době krize a po krizi. MUNIpress
    recommended literature
  • Serrano Pacual, A., Magnusson, L. Reshaping Welfare States and Activation Regimes. Oxford: Peter Lang.
  • OECD 2012. Employment Outlook. Chapter 1: Waiting for the Recovery: OECD Labour Markets in the Wake of the Cisis, Chapter 2: What Makes Labour Markets Resilient During Recession?,
  • Sirovátka, T. and J. Winkler (2011), “Governance of activation policies in the Czech Republic: uncoordinated transformation”, in van Berkel, R., de Graaf, W. and T. Sirovátka (eds) Governance of activation policies in Europe, Palgrave, pp 173-194
  • Národní program reforem 2008-2010.
  • Právní úpravy platné v ČR: „Zaměstnanost (rekvalifikace, pracovní rehabilitace, zřizování pracovních míst a veřejně prospěšné práce).“
  • Strategie Evropa 2020. (Národní program reforem, zejména část zaměstnanost).
  • Winkler, Jiří - Žižlavský, Martin (eds) 2004. Český trh práce a Evropská strategie zaměstnanosti. Brno : Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykova univerzita.
  • Vyhodnocení rekvalifikačních programů realizovaných v České republice v roce 2016 / Ondřej HORA, Markéta HORÁKOVÁ, Miroslav SUCHANEC, Miroslava RÁKOCZYOVÁ, Tomáš SIROVÁTKA - Praha: VÚPSV, v. v. i., 2020.
  • deKonning J. 2001. Labour Market Policy and Unemployment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,
  • SIROVÁTKA, Tomáš a Henk SPIES. A new perspective on activating young people. In Sirovátka, T. and H. Spies. Effective interventions for unemployed young people in Europe. Oxon a New York: Routledge, 2018. s. 10-28.
  • Zhodnocení krátkodobých a střednědobých dopadů vybraných programů APZ realizovaných v roce 2014 s důrazem na situaci dlouhodobě nezaměstnaných / Ondřej Hora, Miroslav Suchanec, Markéta Horáková, Miroslava Rákoczyová, Tomáš Sirovátka - Praha: VÚPSV, v.v.i
  • Sirovátka, T,. Mareš, P. (eds) 2003. Trh práce, nezaměstnanost, sociální politika. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
  • Clasen J., Clegg, D. 'Regulating the risk of unemployment. National adaptations to post-industrial labour markets in Europe'. Oxford University Press
  • Finn D., Blackmore M. 2001. Aktivizace očima klientů a terenních pracovníků, s. 285 – 302. in OECD Opatření na trhu práce a veřejné služby zaměstnanosti. OECD a MPSV ČR.
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussions, homework, reading compulsory literature, seminar work, and feedback on it.
Assessment methods
Two tests containing five open questions, seminar work, homework, final written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
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