37417 - GLOBALIZZAZIONE E MERCATO DEL LAVORO

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Il corso si propone di esaminare da vicino le caratteristiche specifiche dei mercati del lavoro nelle economie in transizione ed in via di sviluppo. Al termine del corso ci si aspetta che lo studente possieda gli strumenti adatti per capire come il processo di globalizzazione influenzi il mercato del lavoro nei paesi sviluppati ed in quelli in via di sviluppo.

Contenuti

1.      The simple neoclassical model of the labor market – labor supply and labor demand.

2.      Beyond neoclassical theory – why is the labor market not like a commodity market? Trade union and efficiency wage models.

3.      Foreign trade, technological change and globalization: theory and empirical evidence on the effects of increased trade and technological change on employment, unemployment and the distribution of earnings in labor markets of developed and less developed countries.

4.      The impact of inward migration on labor markets in developed economies – theory and evidence.

5.      Models of labor markets in developing countries – efficiency wage models, duality models, informal employment and labor market segmentation.

6.      Labor market adjustment in transition countries: contrasting the adjustment paths of Central Europe versus the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

7.      Job Creation and Job Destruction in Transition: How creative has been job destruction over the last decade?

8.      Worker displacement in transition: the incidence and cost of job loss in transition countries.

9.      Active labor market policies in transition countries: their rationale and their evaluation.

Testi/Bibliografia

There is no satisfactory textbook that covers all these topics but a large literature on all the studied issues. However, students can consult two textbooks that cover parts of the course:

 

Pierre Cahuc and René Zylberberg, Labor Economics, MIT Press, 2004 – this is an advanced textbook;

R.G. Ehrenberg and R.S.Smith, Modern Labor Economics, Theory and Public Policy, various editions, Harper Collins – this is an intermediate textbook.

 

A detailed bibliography will be published on my homepage (http://www.dse.unibo.it/lehmann/riservato/Download_fo.htm/ ).
From the home page you can also download my power point presentation on each topic.

Metodi didattici

Lectures and discussion of students' presentations.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Studenti frequentanti

 

Final oral examination: 70% of overall grade;

2 Power Point Presentations of a paper by students: 30% of overall grade.

 

Studenti non-frequentanti 

 

Final oral examination: 100% of overall grade.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Blackboard and power point projector.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Hartmut Lehmann