Labor Economics

Teaching results

Knowledge
• Using data from the development of labor market in Slovakia and other countries, he acquires theoretical concepts of the labor market performance and statistical reporting on employment and unemployment (LFS)
• The student recognizes the role of human capital and labor migration in the further development of the labor market.
Competence
• The student will get the opportunity to acquire and apply theoretical knowledge from the labor market from real practice examples. Therefore, the student creates links between the theory of labor market with practice.
• He empirically verifies the role of trade unions in the labor market together with the impact of the existence of a minimum wage on labor demand.
Skills
• During the preparation of seminar papers, he develops skills for the formulation of qualitative and quantitative economic analysis in this area.
• The student expands his ability to understand phenomena in the labor market in the context and understands the consequences of income inequality and different remuneration strategies on the performance of employees.