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Socio-employment Policy

Code: 100502 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500258 Labour Relations OB 2

Contact

Name:
Lidia Andrés Delgado
Email:
lidia.andres@uab.cat

Teachers

Marcela Arqueros Wood

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

No prerequisite is necessary. It is recomended to have previously successfully completed the courses of Introduction to Economics and Labour Economics.

 

 

 


Objectives and Contextualisation

The Socio-labour Policies course has as its main objective the knowledge and analysis of public policies that affect the labour market.

Its specific goals are:

  • knowledge and evaluation of the problems that justify the application of Socio-labour Policies
  • Knowledge of the characteristics and critical points of the main Socio-labour Policies
  • Evaluate the effects of these policies, how they interact with the environment in which they are applied, and how they interact with each other
  • Discuss the contents, objectives and impacts of political proposals in terms of Socio-labour Policies
  • Compare different models of Socio-Labour Policies

 

 


Competences

  • Advising union and business organizations and their members.
  • Applying the information and communication technologies to the different areas of action.
  • Clearly expressing ideas or facts in a compelling way.
  • Connecting the labour market needs, demands, and fluctuations, and the dynamics and policies of the industrial relations.
  • Contextualising the social events from a (geographical, historical, economic, ecological, sociopolitical or cultural) global point of view.
  • Contrasting the equality between men and women in the workplace and solving the issues arisen with the Act on Equality.
  • Distinguishing the special needs of labour integration in different groups of workers (with mental or psychical disabilities, immigrants...).
  • Drawing up and formalising reports and documents.
  • Interpreting data and socioeconomic indicators concerning the labour market.
  • Organising and managing the available time.
  • Producing, implementing and assessing territorial strategies of economic promotion and labour integration.
  • Properly analysing the specific situations of reconciliation of work and family life, and implementing the corresponding regulations.
  • Retain the ethical values and moral standards in decision-making.
  • Students must be aware of the impact and implications of decisions and activities in other company areas.
  • Students must be capable of persuading others to agree with their point of view.
  • Understanding the dynamic and changing character of the labour relations in the national and international field.
  • Verbally communicating and defending a project.
  • Working autonomously.
  • Working effectively in teams.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analysing the economic globalisation in the national and international fields.
  2. Applying the information and communication technologies to the different areas of action.
  3. Assessing and contrasting the segmentation and discrimination in the labour market.
  4. Classifying the general and specific policies of occupation. Assessing the equality between men and women in the labour market.
  5. Classifying the working time regulations.
  6. Clearly expressing ideas or facts in a compelling way.
  7. Defining the equality policies.
  8. Describing the Social Security policies.
  9. Distinguishing the migratory policies.
  10. Drawing up and formalising reports and documents.
  11. Economically analysing the policies of the current working conditions.
  12. Explaining the structure of the labour market
  13. Identifying and distinguishing the policies affecting employment.
  14. Identifying the institutional aspects of the labour market in order to relate the needs, demands and fluctuations of the labour market and their dynamics.
  15. Identifying the position of the Spanish labour market within the context of globalisation.
  16. Knowing the structure of the labour market.
  17. Organising and managing the available time.
  18. Producing and verbally defending written texts of topics related with the previous competences.
  19. Recognising the economic policies of the current working conditions.
  20. Recognising the institutional aspects of the labour market.
  21. Retain the ethical values and moral standards in decision-making.
  22. Solving and debating the policies affecting employment as trade unions and employer's organizations.
  23. Students must be aware of the impact and implications of decisions and activities in other company areas.
  24. Students must be capable of persuading others to agree with their point of view.
  25. Understanding the data concerning employment supply and demand.
  26. Understanding the employment supply and demand.
  27. Understanding the general and specific policies of occupation.
  28. Verbally communicating and defending a project.
  29. Working autonomously.
  30. Working effectively in teams.

Content

The main objective is to study, from an economic perspective, the main social policies that influence labour markets.

 Part 1. The role of socio labour policies

 1.  Labour activity

         Labour and social needs. The spaces of labour: markets, families and public regulation

 2.  The role of Public Policy

      The role and forms of public regulation. Public policies. National models of employment

 Part 2. Employment policies

 3.  Macroeconomic policies

         The concept of full employment. Keynesian and neoliberal policies. Employment policies in the era of globalisation

 4.  Policies of protection to unemployed

         Types of policies and their economic effects. From welfare to workfare. The debate on universal income

 5.  Active employment policies

         Assesment to unemployed people. Ocupational training. Employment promotion

 Part 3. Other labour policies

 6.  Time policies

      The debate on worktime and their employment effects. Time flexibility and every day life

 7.  Migratory policies

      Types of migrations and types of policies. The effect of flux policies on labour markets

 8.  Policies against inequalitys

      Inequalities in the labour market. Gender policies. The role of unions and collective bargaining

 Part 4. Othes policies with social and labour effects

 9. Social Security and labour markets

     Social Security systems and their labourmarket impacts. State ofthe art

10. Personal autonomy Policies

     The dependency law

 

 

 

 

 

 


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
PROFESSORS TEACHING 25 1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29
Type: Supervised      
TEAM WORK 20 0.8 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Type: Autonomous      
EXAMS 7.5 0.3 6, 10, 15, 17, 24
SEARCH OF BIBLIOGRAPHY AND DATA 22.5 0.9 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 26, 29
TIME DEVOTED TO INDIVIDUAL LEARNING 70 2.8 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 26, 29

TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Teaching includes both theory and practice of labour and social policies.

Team work: the teacher proposes topics, discusses the scheme and supervises the work. The students make the oral presentation and deliver the work.

 

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
ATTENDANCE 5% 0 0 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 27, 28
TEAM WORK 20% 1.25 0.05 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30
Two exams 75% 3.75 0.15 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 29

There are two exams, each of them accounts for 37,5% of the final grade.

Team work accounts for 20% of the final grade. Assessment, considers both, the quality of the written paper and the oral presentation.

And, finally, class participation accounts for 5% of the final grade.


Bibliography

BANYULS, J., CANO, E., PITXER, J.V. SANCHEZ, A. (2005) Economia Laboral i Polítiques d’Ocupació. Universitat de València

FINA, L. (2001) El reto del empleo. McGraw Hill, Madrid

MC CONNELL, C.R., BRUE, S.L, MACPHERSON, D.A. (2007)  Economía Laboral. McGraw-Hill, Madrid

RECIO, A. (1997) Trabajos, personas, mercados  FUHEM Icaria, Barcelona

 

 

When necessary, bibliography and complementary readings will be provided on the Virtual Campus

 

Software

The subject does not require any specific software


Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 51 Catalan second semester afternoon
(TE) Theory 1 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 51 Catalan second semester afternoon