COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN THE EU AND TURKEY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEK 6155 EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN THE EU AND TURKEY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZEKI ERDUT

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

The main objective of this course is to understand the basic feature of labor markets in EU and Turkey, employment policy and the effects of EU's employment policy on member states employment policies in respect to Turkey as a candidate country.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand coordination, authority, responsibility and functions of EU s employment policy in member states and Turkey.
2   To understand the purposes and features of EU s employment strategy and the policies for employment and its implementations
3   To be able to analyse the effects of free movement of labour to EU socially, economically and politically
4   To compare the change of labour market in member states and Turkey in respect to space and time
5   To evaluate the social and economical crisis and transformations in global scale and in EU, and its effects on Turkey as a candidate country.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Economic Policy and Governance
2 Social Policy
3 EU s Labour Market
4 Employment Policy
5 European Employment Strategy
6 Guidelines for Employment
7 Midterm Exam
8 Open Method of Coordination and the National Reform Programmes
9 Business Structure, Relations of Production and Competition
10 Enlargement Policy and Localization
11 Free Movement of Labour
12 Distribution of Income
13 Informal Employment
14 Unemployment and Social Exclusion

Recomended or Required Reading

Mariya Aleksynska, Yann Algan, Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe. IZA DP No. 5185, Bonn, September 2010.
Maximos Aligisakis, Lionel Arnaud, Yves Flückiger, Catherine Lévy, Franz Schultheis; Intégration européenne et exclusions sociales. Institut européen de l Université de Genève, Juin 2007.
Jesús Alsasua, Javier Bilbao-Ubillos, Jon Olaskoaga; The EU integration process and the convergence of social protection benefits at national level, International Journal of Social Welfare. No. 16, 2007, p. 297-306.
Bruno Amable, Lilas Demmou, Ivan Ledezma; Stratégie de Lisbonne et réformes structurelles en Europe, Revue de l IRES. No. 60, 2009/1, p. 25-46.
Rudiger von Arnim, Employment prospects: A global model of recovery and rebalancing. International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva, 2010.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class participation
Examinations
Asisignments

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

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)

zeki.erdut@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 11 11
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 118

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511