SVPTPZA Labour Market and Employment Policy

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Milan Šimek, Ph.D.
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives (in Czech)
The aim of the course is to provide knowledge about the labour market functioning from the theoretical view and real practice as well. The course apprises of the main aspects of the labour market as a one of the production factors markets. It brings out the issues of the labour supply and demand, wage differences, labour unions and state interventions in the labour market. Great deal of a course focuses on the unemployment, which is important microeconomic and macroeconomic problem. The course also follows labour market policy in the Czech Republic and EU countries.
Syllabus
  • 1. Labour market in the perfect competition
    2. Human capital investments
    3. Wage differences in the labour market
    4. Discrimination in the labour market
    5. Monopsony and labour unions
    6. Wage creation in market economies
    7. Unemployment
    8. Unemployment as a social problem
    9. Labour market policy
    10. Labour market development in the Czech Republic
    11. Labour market policy in the Czech Republic
    12. The system of employment services in the Czech Republic
    13. International personal turnover
Literature
    required literature
  • BECKER, G. S. The Economic Approach to Human Behavior. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 0226041123. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
The precondition for achievement of credit shall be the compulsory attendance to seminars within the scope of 70% and succesful completion of the current test and seminary work during lectures.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Summer 2008, Summer 2009, Winter 2009, Summer 2010, Winter 2010, Summer 2011, Winter 2011, Summer 2012, Winter 2012, Summer 2013, Winter 2013, Summer 2014.
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