Study Programmes 2015-2016
| ECON0943-1 | |||||||||||
| Labor economics | |||||||||||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th, 15h Pr | |||||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Mathieu Lefebvre | |||||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language | |||||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the second semester | |||||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | |||||||||||
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Course contents :
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| The course overview labour economics issues, including theory, evidence and policy. The aim of the course is to familiarise students with main theoretical and empirical issues in current labour economics.
Topics include labour supply, job search, wage determination, Human capital, returns to schooling, signalling and training, incentives in the labour market and labour demand as well as monopsony labour market institutions: minimum wages, unemployment compensation, employment protection, unions. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| By the end of the course, the students will acquire a good knowledge of the mechanisms at work on the labor market | |||||||||||
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Microeconomics course | |||||||||||
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| A short essay on a topic chosen from a list of labor economics issues will represent 40% of the final grade.
A final exam will count for the 60% left. |
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