COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LABOUR MARKETS AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 5085 LABOUR MARKETS AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLÇIN GÜREŞÇI

Offered to

Economics

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to understand the historical evolution of labor markets, labor market equilibrum, wage level, gender and ethnic differences in the labor market etc, to examine theoritical subjects with ortodox, heterodox and economic-politic aspects.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to learn the historical evolution of labor markets.
2   To be able to do analyze ortodox and heterodox theoritical approaches to labor markets.
3   To be able to analyze the effects of unions and regulative government institutions to labor markets in labor markets.
4   To be able to learn comprehensized information about unemployment, inflation, growth, migration, race, gender and wages
5   To be able to analyze different aspects like poverty, racism, sexim and etc in the labor markets.
6   To be able to do a sufficient seminar presentation in the context of the course; and to write an article consistent, totalitarian and suitable with the academical writing and citation rules.
7   To be able to communicate ethic and cognitive with in class arguments, to do evidence based argumentation, to defend his/her ideas efficiently.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Labor and Labor studies: Introduction
2 Labor factor in the evolution of economical thought: labor in the classical and neo classical economics, labor and wages in Keynesian economic analysis, the evolution of labor economics as a discipline after 1945, last trends in labor economics
3 Personal and compound labor supply theories, statical work-leisure time preference theory, the effects of social programmes and incom taxes, Life cycle models, house hold labor supply models
4 Personal and compound labor supply models, constant cost profit and labor demand models, adaptive costs and dynamic labor demand models.
5 Institutional and competitive labor demand models, the evolution of wage structure and differences, productivity and wage relationship
6 The evolution of unions and collective contracts, the trend of union membership and the determinants of union membership, the effects of unions on wages, the evolution of collective contracts as an institution, economical analysis of effective bargaining and collective contract, unions, bargaining, productivity, relationship between inflation and employment
7 Government and labor markets, the evolution and the structure of labor laws
8 Employment and the reasons of unemployment, unemployment insurance and temporary unemployment, the types of unemployment
9 Calculation of the statistics about labor markets , usage of calculations, empirical examples, comparisons of different country data sets.
10 Calculation of the statistics about labor markets , usage of calculations, empirical examples, comparisons of different country data sets. (A midterm will be held in this week except the course hour)
11 Political economy of unemployment, unemployment from Golden Age to neolibalism, labor market institutions and employment in the developped and undevelopped countries, naturel unemployment rate in the OECD countries and NAIRU analysis: NAIRU in America and Europe, alternative approaches to NAIRU and political economical criticsm, country analysis on inflation and economic growth
12 Marxist labor theory I: Marxist labor theory and wage theory, unemployment in the Marxist sense: the occurance of reserve labor force
13 Marxist labor theory II: fragmentation of production and lengthen of work day in the context of capitalist re-production, the increase of producitivity and density of labor, şabor force and produciton with machine, marxist wage theories and the evolution of wages, absolute impoverishment theory
14 Discrimination in the labor market: Racism and gender discrimination.

Recomended or Required Reading

1- McConnell, Brue & MacPherson, Contemporary Labor Economics, 8th edition,McGraw-Hill, 2009
2- Paul McNulty, The Origins and Development of Labor Economics, MIT Press, 1984
3- Marx, K. Kapital I-II-III, 1867
4- Suğur, Nadir, Theo Nichols,Global Işletme Yerel Emek, Iletişim Yayınevi, 2005
5- Dinerstein, Ana C., Michael Neary, Emek Tartışması, Otonom Yayıncılık, 2011
6- Benan Zeki Orbay, Hacer Ansal, Özlem Onaran, Suat Küçükçifçi, Türkiye Emek Piyasasının Yapısı ve Işsizlik, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2000
7- Meda, Dominique, Emek Kaybolma Yolunda Bir Değer Mi , Iletişim Yayınevi, 2004
8- Meek, Ronald L., Emek Değer Teorileri, Kalkedon Yayıncılık
9-U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, How the Government Measures Unemployment, BLS Report 505, 1977.
10- D.Blundell and T.MaCurdy (1999), Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches , Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3A, Chapter 27.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Courses which will go on for 14 weeks, the course will be handled with the interactive and mutual arguments about the subject after the instructor lectures the same subject. Because arguing about the articles related with the subject is the main learning method of the course, reading tasks will be opened to debate after a short presentation of a student every week. It is expected for students to prepare a short summary about the subjects they study in certain weeks and to do an end of term study chosen by her/him that s consistent, totalitarian and suitable with the academical writing and citation rules and to present his/her study in a department seminar at the end of the term or to send his/her study to an academic congress as an abstract.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

As well as exams done, presentations and tasks will be decisive.

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes which have number 1,2,4,5 and 7 is measured by mid exam and final exam. Learning otucomes that have the number 3 and 6 is measured by end of term studies and presentation of study.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students must join at least 70% of the courses which is equal to minimum 10 weeks of lesson.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Room Number 432, Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Campus of Dokuzcesmeler

Office Hours

Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Giving the Lecture 14 3 42
Before/After Lecture Preperation Process (Weekly) 13 2 26
Preperation of essay 1 25 25
Preperation for the mid exam 1 15 15
Preperation for the final exam 1 20 20
Reading 1 15 15
Final Exam 1 3 3
Mid Exam 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 149

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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