PřF:Z0027 Geography of labour market - Course Information

Z0027 Geographical analysis of labour market

Extent and Intensity

1/2/0. 5 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Ondřej Šerý, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Ondřej Šerý, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Ondřej Šerý, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science

Timetable

Thu 9:00–9:50 Z4,02028

• Timetable of Seminar Groups:

Z0027/01: Tue 9:00–10:50 Z7,02017a, O. Šerý

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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied geography and geoinformatics (programme PřF, N-AGG)
• Applied Geography (programme PřF, N-GK)
• Social Geography and Regional Development (programme PřF, N-GK)
• Social geography and regional development (programme PřF, N-SGR)

Course objectives

The definition and methodical explanation of basic key words concerning labor market, employment, unemployment and the level of unemployment. The branches classification of occupations, occupations classification by internal classification ISCO - 88. International Labor Organisation (ILO), statistical labor yearbooks, international comparisons. The formation of unemployment and approach to unemployed people (special interest: the development of unemployment in Czechoslovakia between World Wars, the development of unemployment in Europe after the World War II.). Uneployment law No 1/1991 Sb., including accepted changes and amendments. Job agencies and their main goals, the use of geographers in job agencies, especially in the sections of 'labor market analysis'. The analysis of the structure of unemployed people by sex, age, by education, by specialisation, by the lenght of registration with a job agency (long-term unemployment). Analysis of the development and the up-to-date situation of the structure of vacancies on subdistrict levels. The content and results of labor surveys, relation to the unemployment level measured by job agencies. Active unemployment policy, foreign approach, municipalities jobs, government support for the creation of jobs for handicapped groups, the rekvalification of job applicants, handicaped applicants - 'protected workshops', monitoring 'Labor market'. The synthesis of the knowledge about the labor market at districts' level, at municipalities - with - delegated - competencies level and at post-district level.

Learning outcomes

Students completing the course will be able to:
- analyze local, national and european labour market;
- identify the key data sources in the labor market;
- know the basic labor market legislation;
-describe actions by the state and other actors to improve the labor market situation.

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction to labor market studies, Act No. 435/2004 Coll. on employment
• 2. Unemployment - theoretical view, practical consequences, development in the Czech Republic after 1989
• 3. Unemployment structures, regional differences
• 4. Labor Force Survey (LFS)
• 5. Territorial pacts of employment
• 6. Foreign institutions and databases on the labor market
• 7. The position of men and women on the labor market
• 8. Position of foreigners on the labor market
• 9. Position of persons by age on the labor market (15-24 years, 50 years and over, graduates and adolescents)
• 10. The role of education in the labor market
• 11. Position of persons on the labor market by economic activity
• 12. Position of the disabled and self-employed on the labor market
• 13. Employment Survey in the South Moravian Region (example of a labor market study)

Literature

• BROŽOVÁ, Dagmar. Společenské souvislosti trhu práce. Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2003, 140 s. ISBN 80-86429-16-4. info
• DRBOHLAV, Dušan. Migrace a (i)migranti v Česku : kdo jsme, odkud přicházíme, kam jdeme? Vyd. 1. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2010, 207 s. ISBN 9788074190391. info
• DRBOHLAV, Dušan. Nelegální ekonomické aktivity migrantů : (Česko v evropském kontextu). Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 2008, 311 s. ISBN 9788024615523. info
• HORÁKOVÁ, Milada. Dlouhodobé trendy ve vývoji pracovních migrací v České republice. 1. vyd. Praha: VÚPSV, 2008, 114, 10. ISBN 9788074160202. URL info
• KOTÝNKOVÁ, Magdalena. Trh práce na přelomu tisíciletí. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Oeconomica, 2006, 256 s. ISBN 8024511495. info
• VEČERNÍK, Jiří. Czech society in the 2000s. 2009. ISBN 978-80-200-1750-5. info
• Přehled trhu práce v České republice. OECD, Paris 1995.
• Nejistoty na trhu práce. Sirovátka, T. - Winkler, J. - Žižlavský, M. (eds.). 1. vyd. Boskovice: František Šalé - ALBERT, 2009, 198 pp. ISBN 978-80-7326-172-6. info
• Zpráva o vývoji české společnosti 1989-1998. Edited by Jiří Večerník. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1998, 364 s. ISBN 8020007032. info

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars: learning process will take place in the computer room. Lectures will deal with theoretical issues, students will however be acquianted with practical examples. Students will work on seminar work on analysis and synthesis of the labour market in concrete region.

Autumn semester 2020: lectures and seminars will take place online through the Google Meet.

Assessment methods

Oral exam - aimed at verifying of acquired knowledge. Assessment will take into account quality of work in seminars.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

Emphasis will be placed on the quality of continuous work in seminars. The exam will include questions from the above 13 topics (see syllabus).

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