Modultitel:

Employment Theory and Policy

Kürzel:

WiWi.EmplTh

 

 Pflichtmodul
 Wahlpflichtmodul

 

 

Leistungspunkte:

9 LP

 

Bereich:

Nebenfach Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Verantwortlicher Hochschullehrer:

Prof. Dr. Ronald Schettkat

 

Lernziele/Kompetenzen

Employment and unemployment rates vary substantially over time and internationally but differences in labor markets go much further comprising issues like education and skills, female labor force participation, wage distribution, labor laws, unions, openness of economies, central bank policy, new technology, etc. How do institutional arrangements affect employment performance theoretically and does empirical research support or falsify theories? This course investigates these trends based on economic theory and gives students the opportunity to investigate some relations with data sets economists use in their analyses.

 

Lehrveranstaltung

Titel LV:

Wird bekannt gegeben

 Pflichtbereich
 Wahlpflichtbereich

Studiensemester:

Wintereinstieg:  4 oder 6

Sommereinstieg: 5

Workload:

Kontaktstunden:

30

Selbststudium:

240

Gesamt:

270

SWS:

4 V, 2 Ü

Gruppengröße

Vorlesung:

50

Gruppengröße

Übung:

50

Häufigkeit:

 

Angebotssemester:

Sommersemester

Dauer:

1 Semester

Sprache:

Englisch

Lehrinhalte:

Basics: Employment, unemployment, wages and working hours, productivity and income: A tour around OECD countries. In this step students will get familiar with the basic concepts of economic employment theory and empirical facts of employment trends based on international data sources.  Labor supply: Who is working, who is not? Economic theory of labor supply, supply elasticity, changes in labor supply, human capital, and brief discussion of possible impacts of institutions on labor supply. Labor demand: What kind of labor, how much? Economic theory of labor demand, capital labor substitution, substitution between high skilled and low skilled labor, human capital, productivity and labor demand. Coordination of supply and demand in labor markets. The idealized market model. Imperfect labor markets: matching, searching and hiring, information asymmetries, signaling.

Lehrformen:

Seminar

Prüfungsformen:

schriftliche oder mündliche Prüfung

Lehrende:

Prof. Dr.Ronald Schettkat

Anzahl LP:

9

Voraussetzungen für die Teilnahme:

VWL I – III, Ökonometrie

Verwendbarkeit über diesen Studiengang hinaus:

Bachelor Wirtschaftswissenschaften, komb. 2-Fach Bachelor

Erwerb der LP in der Lehrveranstaltung:

bestandene schriftliche oder mündliche Prüfung