European Labour Market and migrations 2105-EPE-L-D4ELMM

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).

• 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.

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 2105-EPE-L-D4ELMM in USOSweb