COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LABOUR ECONOMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 2012 LABOUR ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZEKI ERDUT

Offered to

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

Course Objective

This course aims to give students an appreciation of the structure and operation of labour markets in capitalist system, the causality between unemployment and inflation, and wage formation and factors which effects wage formation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand the structure and operation of labour market
2   To analyze demand and supply in the labour market
3   To scrutinize reasons and ways out of unemployment
4   To identify wage formation
5   To describe income distribution

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Labor Economics
2 The Meaning of Work and Pre-Capitalist Forms of Work
3 The Change of Work in the Process of Capitalism and Industrialization
4 Basic Concepts Regarding the Labor Market in Terms of Terminology
5 Definition and Characteristics of the Labor Market
6 Labor Market Types and Institutions
7 Flexibility and Stratification in Labor Markets
8 Midterm Exam
9 Labor Supply
10 Labor Demand
11 Equilibrium and Wage Formation in Labor Markets
12 Unemployment: Effects, Theories and Types
13 The Relationship Between Unemployment, Growth and Inflation
14 Active and Passive Employment Policies
15 General Characteristics and Problems of the Turkish Labor Market

Recomended or Required Reading

Ansal, Hacer; Küçükçiftçi, Suat; Onaran, Özlem; Orbay, Zeki; Türkiye Emek Piyasasının Yapısı ve Işsizlik. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, Istanbul, Kasım 2000.
Biçerli, M. Kemal; Çalışma Ekonomisi. 5. Bası, Beta Basım Yayım Dağıtım A.Ş., Istanbul, Kasım 2009.
Eliot, Robert F.; Karşılaştırmalı Çalışma Ekonomisi. (Çev.: Mehmet Beşeli, Seyhan Erdoğdu, Arif Geniş, Fatih Güngör, Gülay Toksöz) Ankara Üniversitesi Rektörlüğü Yayınları, Yayın No: 210, Ankara, 1997.
Erdut, Zeki; Rekabetin Işgücü Piyasasına Etkisi. Türk Ağır Sanayii ve Hizmet Sektörü Kamu Işverenleri Sendikası (TÜHIS), Yayın No. 29, Izmir, 1998.
Lordoğlu, Kuvvet; Özkaplan, Nurcan; Çalışma Iktisadı. Der Yayınları, Istanbul, 2007

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


*** 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
412 03 52

Office Hours

Monday, 15.30-17.00
Tuesday, 15.30-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 6 72
Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 135

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311111
LO.411
LO.511111

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