Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2017-18
- Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
- Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2017-18
Course context for academic year 2017-18
The course is an introduction to the field of labor economics. The purpose of the course is to provide students with theoretical and empirical tools enabling them to develop a research project in labor economics. It provides a broad overview of theoretical models and empirical methods in the most traditional topics of labor economics, with a focus on labour market institutions and labour market policies. Topics to be covered in first part of the course include: labour supply and family coordination of time allocation, labour demand, minimum wages, labour market equilibrium, and wage structure. The second part of the course will focus on trade unions and bargaining, unemployment, unemployment insurance and active labour market policies. For each topic, theoretical contributions are proposed and compared to existing empirical evidence, in order to provide students interested in working on empirical analyses with a theoretical framework.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
General Competences (CG)
- CG1 : Capacity to carry out research work.
- CG2 : Capacity to find data (natural and experimental) and analyse it.
- CG3 : Capacity to apply economic theory to represent real situations.
- CG4 : Capacity for teamwork.
- CG5 : Capacity for self-learning.
- CG6 : Ethical commitment and social responsibility at work, respecting the environment, being aware and understanding the importance of respect for fundamental rights, equal opportunities for men and women, universal accessibility for the disabled and respect for the values of a peaceful, democratic society.
- CG7 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudice and with precision and rigor.
- CG8 : Capacity for synthesis.
Specific Competences (CE)
- CE1 : Capacity to read Economic research articles in a reasoned fashion and evaluate them critically, understand their essential contributions and weaknesses.
- CE2 : Capacity to understand how the technical problems faced by authors of research articles have been resolved in each case.
- CE3 : Capacity to test theorems and propositions.
- CE4 : Capacity to understand and reproduce empirical analyses and simulation experiments on which the conclusions of research articles written by other authors are based.
- CE5 : Capacity to present important economic problems precisely and respond adequately to said problems by using the techniques learnt on the different courses, using theoretical and empirical analyses or simulations if necessary.
- CE6 : Ability to write a research report or article describing the problem dealt with, analysing previous literature on the subject, clearly presenting the solution obtained for the problem and synthesising the conclusions of the work.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2017-18
- To understand the factors that determine the outcomes observed in labor markets in today's globalized world.
- To understand how workers, firms, unions and the government interact in the labor market and how these interactions are transferred to economic indicators observed.
- To be able to evaluate the importance of public policy in the context of the labor market.
- To be able to analyze different aspects of real world labor markets.
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