European Union Labour Market in the 21st century

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The main aim of this course will be to analyze the structural changes that are ongoing in European Union labour market in the 21st century (education, innovation, automation, 4th industrial revolution, key skills and future of the EU labour market)

The target audience of the course can be students of all faculties and specializations; recommended basic knowledge of the European Union.

The main aim of this course will be to to analyze the structural changes that are ongoing in European Union labour market in the 21st century. We will start from the freedom of movement including the milestones in jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the EU and the european social policy. We will then concentrate on the current changes occurring in the EU concerning labour market. We will discuss issues like: demographic changes in Europe in the 21st Century, productivity, market segmantation and polarisation of the labour market. We will also focus on the impact of the fourth industrial revolution on European labour market and disscus the probable scenarios concerning the future of work in the EU.

The outline of the course (6 weeks):

1. Free movement of people in the EU and European social law,

2. Social and employment policy in the European Union (employment and social situation in the EU; European Pillar of Social Rights)

3. Current changes to the labour market in the EU (demographic changes in Europe in the 21st Century, productivity, market segmantation, polarisation of the labour market)

4. The fourth industrial revolution (impact of automation on labour market and skills),

5. The future of work in the EU (education to employment; redefining social contract, innovation, the role of education and key skills, risk of poverty and social exclusion)

Attention! Course will be conducted in English language.

Student's workload:

reading of the course material - 45 h

preparation to the final exam - 45 h

total - 90 h

Bibliography:

• Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions: Reaffirming the free movement of workers: rights and major developments, Brussels, 13.7.2010 COM(2010)373 final (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52010DC0373&from=FR);

• EU Social Law, main legal texts 2017 (https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/08fe1592-f101-11e7-9749-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF);

• Hoftijzer, Margo; Gortazar, Lucas. 2018. Skills and Europe’s Labor Market : How Technological Change and Other Drivers of Skill Demand and Supply are Shaping Europe’s Labor Market. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29965);

• The European Commission’s 2006 Green Paper on Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century, Brussels, 22.11.2006 COM(2006) 708 final (http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/com/com_com(2006)0708_/com_com(2006)0708_en.pdf)

• Pachocka M., Misiuna J., Demographic Changes in Europe in the 21st Century: Will Poland Become an Immigration State?, w: 10 lat członkostwa Polski w Unii Europejskiej – ocena i perspektywy, red. E. Latoszek, A. Stępniak, A Kłos, M. Krzemiński, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Sopot 2014, s. 59–77. (https://depot.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/123456789/10267/Demographic_Changes_in_Europe_in_the_21s.pdf?sequence=1);

• M. Schäfer, The fourth industrial revolution: How the EU can lead it, European View 2018, Vol. 17(1) 5–12 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1781685818762890);

• Working paper, The impact of industrial robots on EU employment and wages: A local labour market approach, F. Chiacchio, G. Petropoulos and D. Pichler, 04.2018 (http://bruegel.org/2018/04/the-impact-of-industrial-robots-on-eu-employment-and-wages-a-local-labour-market-approach/)

• Employment and Social Development in Europe - Quarterly Review - December 2018 (https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&langId=en&pubId=8160&furtherPubs=yes)

• Report by the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work: Work for a brighter future (https://www.ilo.org/global/topics/future-of-work/publications/WCMS_662410/lang--en/index.htm);

The rest of the literature will be distrubuted during the course.

After completing the course student:

1. Describes freedom of movement in the European Union;

2. Describes employment and social policy of the European Union;

3. Uses labour market terminology;

4. Analyzes labour market data;

5. Discusses the concept of 4th industrial revolution;

6. Discusses the future of work in the European Union (possible scenarios).

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

1. (60 percent of the total mark) will consist of students’ active participation in the class:

2. (40 percent) will be a 1-hour exam in which students will be given open-ended questions, which they will be asked in answer in the form of a short essay (the length of which is unlimited).

No written materials (textbooks, printouts etc) will be allowed into the classroom during the exam.

missing practical placement in English