COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEMS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TIJEN ERDUT

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Evening)

Course Objective

This course aims to make students familiar with the varieties of national welfare and production systems which share a common history.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify the functioning of the specific institutions of the current welfare state systems
2   To clarify the specific features and comparative advantages of national production systems
3   To show the micro-level resources of institutions which shape the behaviour of actors and support the existing institutional infrastructure.
4   To compare different welfare state systems
5   To argue the transformation of welfare state systems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Concepts and Theories
2 Comparative economic systems
3 Varieties of capitalism approach (Hall ve Soskice)
4 Regulation approach (Boyer)
5 Typology of welfare states systems (Esping-Andersen)
6 Liberal welfare state systems
7 Conservative welfare state systems
8 Mid Term
9 Socio-democratic welfare state systems
10 Other Types of Social State Systems
11 Social State Systems in Experimental Approach (Amable)
12 Comparative labour market institutions
13 Varieties of corporate governance
14 Comparative social protection systems
15 Comparative industrial relations systems

Recomended or Required Reading

ESPING-ANDERSON, Gosta; Welfare States in Transition. Social Security in the New Global Economy. Sage, London, 1996.

HALL, Peter A. and SOSKICE, David; Varieties of Capitalism, The Institutional Foundations
Of Comparative Advantage. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class participation
Examinations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tijen.erdut@deu.edu.tr
420 20293

Office Hours

Monday: 14.00 17.00
Wednesday : 14.00 17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 107

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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