Duration
20h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The Statistics and the Labor Market course consists of two parts: 1. the IWEPS Chair (SOCI9111-A-a ) and the Labor Market Indicators course (SOCI9111-B-a ).
An introductory session (prior to the IWEPS Chair) will link the two parts. The IWEPS Chair allows students to learn about statistics related to the labor market and their application to Wallonia. The Labor Market Indicators course will review the definitions of the indicators seen during the IWEPS Chair in a more theoretical way.
See pedagogical commitments of the two parts: SOCI9111-A-a and SOCI9111-B-a.
The course aims to familiarize students with the different indicators generally used for the analysis of the labor market. It consists of several chapters. Each of them answers a question related to labor market statistics:
1. Understanding the indicator: Where does the data come from?
- Focus on administrative data
- Focus on survey data
2. LM diagnosis: what indicators to use to understand a country's labor market?
3. Employment policies: what are the government's means of action?
4. Poverty and labor
The course also includes a practical part: students will have to use the main databases accessible online and work in Excel
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The learning objectives of the course are:
1. Understand where data comes from and which organizations are responsible for statistics.
2. Define the main labor market indicators
3. Understand how labor market indicators are calculated, and apply the formulas to concrete examples.
4. Analyze a series of indicators and draw conclusions about the state of the labor market in one or other country.
5. Define the different types of labor market policies (active and passive).
6. Define poverty-related indicators
7. Understand how poverty indicators are calculated, and apply the formulas to concrete examples.
8. Analyze a series of indicators and draw conclusions about in-work poverty.
9. Mobilize (where to look?) and present labor market and poverty statistics using Excel.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None, but knowledge of Excel desirable
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
This seminar is intended to be practical. The focus will be on the presentation and use of the various tools that provide access to public statistics.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
The seminar will be participative.
Recommended or required readings
The powerpoint of the seminars are available for download via MyULg before each class session.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions, practical questions in Excel)
Written work / report
Continuous assessment
Additional information:
Any session :
- In-person
written exam
- Remote
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred in-person
Additional information:
Written exam (June)
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Frieda Vandeninden f.vandeninden@uliege.be