Employment Policy
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Economics and Finance
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
To provide students with deeper theoretical and especially practical knowledge in the field of employment policies and labor market policy in the conditions of the Slovak Republic and other EU countries. Within the course, students will get acquainted with the current situation on the labor market with an emphasis on identifying different types of disadvantages (young people, long-term unemployed, Roma, people with disabilities, homeless people, other disadvantages - nationality, sexual orientation, refugees, etc.). They will get acquainted with the systems of employment services in selected countries.
Knowledge and understanding:
- to gain an overview of the functioning of employment policy in relation to economic and social policy
- to gain knowledge about the functioning of employment services and from the area of the process of creating individual action plans for the unemployed.
Skills:
- analyze and professionally process theoretical and especially practical issues of the functioning of the labor market, identify requirements for job opportunities with an emphasis on disadvantaged job seekers
Competencies:
- acquire specific and core competencies for the needs of creating and developing cooperation with the unemployed, potential employers and the community
- to propose procedures and tools to assist in the process of placing jobseekers in the labor market
Indicative content
Within the course, students will gain in-depth knowledge of individual instruments of employment policy, active and passive measures implemented in order to create a balance in the labor market, eliminate unemployment and increase the employability of job seekers. The final output of the seminar will be, in cooperation with employment support organizations, the design and preparation of procedures and tools to assist in the process of placing specific job seekers.
1. Labor market in the context of current economic development. 2.
2. Disadvantaged groups in the labor market.
3. Employment policy in the conditions of the Slovak Republic and selected EU countries in relation to the priorities and recommendations of the EC.
4. Relationship between employment policy, economic, social, educational policy.
5. Indicators in the field of active and passive employment policy.
6. Active labor market policy instruments focused on individual disadvantaged groups of the unemployed.
7. Comparison of employment service systems in the Slovak Republic and selected countries.
8. Creating individual action plans for job seekers according to the type of disadvantaged - graduates.
9. Creating individual action plans for job seekers according to the type of disadvantaged - persons over 50 years of age.
10. Creating individual action plans for job seekers according to the type of disadvantaged - long-term unemployed.
11. Creating individual action plans for job seekers according to the type of disadvantaged - people with disabilities.
12. Case study I.
13. Case study II.
Support literature
1. LUBYOVÁ, M., ŠTEFÁNIK, M. et al.: Labour Market in Slovakia 2017+. Košice: Equilibria, s. r. o., 2016, ISBN 978-80-970850-4-9
2. EHRENBERG, R. G., et al.: Modern labor economics: Theory and public policy. Routledge, 2016.
3. RIEVAJOVÁ, E. a kol.: Trh práce a politika zamestnanosti. Bratislava: Ekonóm, 2016
4. RIEVAJOVÁ, E. a kolektív: Súčasnosť a nové výzvy na trhu práce v meniacich sa sociálno-ekonomických podmienkach. Bratislava: Ekonóm, 2018
Requirements to complete the course
Active participation in seminars - 10%
Project elaboration - 15%
Continuous written test - 15%
Final semester written test - 60%
Student workload
78 hours: participation in seminars 26 hours, preparation for seminars 12 hours, processing of the semester project 16 hours, preparation for the middle test 24 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak, English
Date of approval: 07.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 10.11.2023