European Labour Market and migrations

obligatory courses

Classroom

The student learns theories explaining the operation of labour markets and migration; he/she gets to know what the basics of functioning

and organization of national labour markets of EU member states are. The student gets to know the mechanisms of integration of national

labour markets, including principles for ensuring the freedom of the workforce and their effects.

1. Introduction

2. Labour market - introductory concepts and contemporary trends. The specifics of the European labour market

3. Basics of economic theory of the labour market: labour demand and its elasticity

4. Basics of the economic theory of the labour market: labour supply (individual and from the household)

5. Setting wages and compensating wage differentials

6. Unemployment: theory and evidence

7. Public policy versus unemployment: European overview

8. Institutional setting of the labour market - international differences

9. Worker Mobility: Migration, immigration, and turnover

10. Migration in economic perspective: pushing and pulling factors

11. Common European labour marker: theoretical and legal view

12. EU policy towards labour markets (Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020)

13. The Labour-Market effects of international trade and production sharing

14. COVID‑19: From a health to a jobs crisis

15. The future of work: technological change, digitalisation

16. Summary

• Ehrenberg R.G., Smith R. S. (2017), Modern Labor Economics. Theory and Public Policy, Routledge.

• OECD Employment Outlook, OECD Publishing, Paris (various editions)

• Employment and Social Developments in Europe, European Commission, Brussels (various editions)

• Cahuc P., Zylberberg A. (2004), Labor Economics, The MIT Press.

• Borjas, G. J., Van Ours, J. C. (2010), Labor economics, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

• International Migration Report, International Organization for Migration, Geneva (various editions)

• Castles S., H De Haas, MJ Miller (2013), The age of Migration: International population movements in the Modern World, Macmillan International Higher Education.

• Rules of the Game: an introduction to standards-related work of the ILO (2019), Geneva.

Other positions will be determined on the basis of the students' choice of topics for their presentations.

The graduate knows and understands:

- economic and social aspects of the integration of the EU Member States

European Union and the influence of the European Union on economic and social policies of the Member States, including various economic activities

and individual entrepreneurship,

- conditions for sectoral policies of the European Union

and their influence on the role and position of the European Union in international relations,

- the basic scope of knowledge about an individual and a citizen as constitutive professional, social, state and supranational structures, its status

and laws and the rules of functioning in these structures;

The graduate is able to:

- observe and interpret various social phenomena taking place

in Europe and the European Union, and analyze the links between

cultural, political, economic and legal dimentions of these phenomena

and external,

- use diverse theoretical knowledge and research methods of sciences

to obtain and interpret data on the European Union

and European countries,

- using economic theories to model socioeconomic processes based on the scientific method,

- analyze the processes of economic and monetary integration and their effects on private and public entities;

The graduate is ready to:

- creativity and entrepreneurship in exploration and generation of new jobs and development of social capital,

- institutionalized representation of diverse interests of various social groups, including political, economic and legal aspects of undertaken initiatives.

- attendance (two absences are allowed),

- obtaining at least 50% of the points of the final test (max 50 points),

- active participation in classes (max 24 points),

- preparation and presentation of two short essays (topics will be distributed by the end of March, max 26 points).