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Teaching GuideTerm University College of Labour Relations (C) |
| Grao en Relacións Laborais e Recursos Humanos (Coruña) |
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| Labour Economics |
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| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Labour Economics | Code | 660G01027 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| UNIT 1.- WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION. | - The functioning of the labor markets. - "Work" as "singular merchandise". - Job Demand and Job Offer. - Labor and economic globalization. |
| UNIT 2.- CONCEPTS, DEFINITIONS AND STATISTICS OF THE LABOR MARKET. | - Introduction. Labor economics as a discipline. - Labor concepts and basic statistics. - Labor market indicators. - Sources of information for the study of labor markets. |
| UNIT 3.- THEORETICAL APPROACHES FOR LABOR MARKET ANALYSIS. SUPPLY, DEMAND AND SALARIES. - | - The traditional approaches: Neoclassical, Keynesian, Marxist and Institutionalist. - Recent approaches: Institutionalists, Chicago and Cambridge Schools, Matching Model, Transitional Markets, etc. - Supply, Demand and Salary from a theoretical perspective. |
| UNIT 4.- QUALIFICATION OF THE JOB OFFER. HUMAN CAPITAL. | - Education and employment in economic theory. - Labor market theories and labor policy. - Education and employment in Europe, Spain and Galicia. |
| UNIT 5.- LABOR INSTITUTIONS. | - The Labor Institutions: origin and typology. - The Labor Institutions in Europe and Spain. |
| UNIT 6.- THE LABOR MARKET AND ACTIVE EMPLOYMENT POLICIES. | - Labor policies: economic fundamentals. - Active employment policies: definition and characteristics. - Strategy and application of active employment policies: EU and Spain. |
| UNIT 7. - THE LABOR MARKET AND PASSIVE EMPLOYMENT POLICIES. | - History of unemployment protection. - Theoretical vision of unemployment benefit. - Passive employment policies: definition and characteristics. - Passive employment policies: EU and Spain. |
| UNIT 8.- STRUCTURAL REFORMS IN LABOR REGULATION AND FLEXIBILITY IN THE COMPANY. | - Labor flexibility: concept, theories and applications. - Numerical flexibility vs. functional flexibility. - Labor Reforms: the Spanish experience. |
| UNIT 9. THE DYNAMICS OF THE LABOR MARKET IN SPAIN. | - Structure and dynamics of the labor market in Spain. - Fundamental imbalances in the Spanish labor market. - Wages and collective bargaining in Spain. - Indications for a diagnosis of the functioning of the labor market in Spain |
| UNIT 10. THE FUTURE OF WORK. | - Work in the global and cybernetic economy. - Work and its new dimensions. - Reconfiguration of the Welfare State. - Organizational transformations and labor fragmentation. - Work, consumption and well-being: a debate. |
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