LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide macroeconomic and microeconomic models of Labour Economics, that may help solve some of the current labour market issues.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, focus groups, student’s research

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Part I (lectures):

- labour market equilibrium in neoclassical economics

- Keynesian unemployment theory and policies

- labour market in new classical macroeconomics and neokeynesian economics

- labour market: heuristics and biases

- labour market institutions, trade unions, bargaining

- unemployment, precarious job, labour policies

- flexicurity

Part II ( lectures and student’s research):

- unemployment and globalization, international wage gap, migration

- working poor

- participation, discrimination, segregation, unequal opportunities

- female employment and fertility

- investment in education

- matching in labour market

- youth unemployment, N.E.E.T