The Effects of Economic Migrations for European Labour Markets

obligatory courses

The first part of the course will be devoted to Europe’s demographic problems having considerable impact on the European labour markets. The course will further focus on European migrations in their internal dimension (freedom of movement of people) and external dimension (migrations from third countries) as well as on the key issue of unemployment in the EU Member States and an analysis of selected labour markets (showing their characteristics and diversity). Another important issue in this context is the analysis of the EU’s labour policy and coordination of the Member States’ social security systems. The last part of the course will be dedicated to the influence of the economic crisis on the European labour markets and the related migrations.

The key problems related to economic migrations and their significance for the EU’s labour markets will be divided into thematic blocs:

Europe’s demographic problems (2 hours)

Free movement of people – legal basis, practice (2 hours)

Migrants in the European labour market (2 hours)

The problem of unemployment in the EU (2 hours)

The labour market in the EU – selected countries (2 hours)

a. the United Kingdom

b. France

c. Germany

d. the Netherlands

e. Poland

The EU’s employment policy and social security system (2 hours)

The impact of the economic crisis on labour markets and migrations (2 hours)

Summary and credit (1 hour)

Student's workload:

lecture - 15 h

preparation to the lecture - 15 h

preparation to the exam - 30 h

total - 60 h

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K. Wach,, Europejski rynek pracy, Warszawa 2007.

L. Florek, Europejskie prawo pracy, LexisNexis 2007.

Europejskie prawo pracy.(red. A. Flisek), Stan prawny styczeń 2009 – Teksty ustaw.

Świątkowski A.M., Europejskie prawo socjalne, Tom 1 (1998) i Tom 2 (1999), Dom Wydawniczy ABC

Fesnak Firlit G, Skoczny Szylko M. (red.) Polityka społeczna. Podręcznik akademicki, Wyd. Naukowe PWN 2008

Balicki J., E. Frątczak, C. B. Nam, „Przemiany ludnościowe: fakty- interpretacje- oceny” Tom I „Mechanizmy przemian ludnościowych. Globalna polityka ludnościowa”, Warszawa 2003

„Biuletyn Migracyjny”

Bos- Karczewska M., „Migracje, szansa czy zagrożenie?”, Gdańsk 2005,

Europejski model społeczny: doświadczenia i przyszłość, (red. nauk. Dariusz K. Rosati), Warszawa 2009.

Eurostat, „European Social Statistics Migration”, European Communities, Luksemburg 2009

Brzozowski J., Procesy migracyjne w krajach Unii europejskiej-problemy teoretyczne i praktyczne, Kraków 2005.

Kaczmarczyk P., Okólski M., „Migracje specjalistów wysokiej klasy w kontekście członkostwa Polski w Unii Europejskiej”, Warszawa 2005 K., Warszawa 2007.

Okólski M. , „Demografia zmiany społecznej”, Warszawa 2004

Warat M. (red.),: Ponad granicami : kobiety, migracje, obywatelstwo, Kraków 2010.

Watson P.: EU social and employment law : policy and practice in an enlarged Europe, Oxford 2009.

Wróbel I.: Zasady przyjmowania w Unii Europejskiej wysoko wykwalifikowanych pracowników z państw trzecich, Warszawa 2008

H. Schneider, Towards a European migration Policy: from Mastricht A. Sosnowska, Problemy demograficzne „starej” Europy, w: Procesy demograficzne a kapitał społeczny, red. S. Kluza, K. Plotzka, Warszawa 2007.

After the conclusion of the education process the students should:

KNOWLEDGE:

1. Have knowledge of Europe’s demographic situation,

2. Know and understand the fundamental notions related to the European labour market, such as: employment policy, labour market protection policy, economic migrants, social security system,

3. Understand the processes of decision-making in EU institutions and Member State bodies with regard to the national labour markets,

4. Have knowledge of the problems related to migrants in the European labour markets, including cultural differences and adaptation problems,

SKILLS:

• Be able to conduct an independent analysis of documents concerning actions taken in the labour market,

• Be able to enter into a discussion on relevant literature and use examples of good and bad practice of the Member States in the field of employment policy,

• Be able to present the positions of the individual states on state migration policy and their actions in labour markets,

ATTITUDES:

• Show greater independence in using theoretical knowledge in the analysis of key phenomena in the field of economic and political relations,

• Develop an attitude of tolerance towards otherness, multiculturality and acceptance,

• Be more responsible doe to the fact that attendance at the lectures in non-obligatory and not verified and because the student is given the choice whether to participate in acquiring the knowledge presented there,

• Be more diligent and honest thanks to rigorous enforcement of exam requirements.

Oral test: credit will be given if the student obtains at least 60 % of the points