COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LABOR MARKETS AND ITS ANALYSIS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKD 7037 LABOR MARKETS AND ITS ANALYSIS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TUNÇ DEMIRBILEK

Offered to

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to teach students the knowledge about labour market and to gain students the ability to evaluate the characteristics of the labour market in Turkey within the framework of global employment.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define the concept and characteristics of labour market
2   Being able to explain labour market segmentation
3   Being able to know characteristics of the population in Turkey
4   Being able to analyze the structure of employment in Turkey
5   Being able to assess the developments in global labour market

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Description and Characteristics of Labour Market
2 Segmented Labour Markets
3 Regulation and Institutional Structure of Labour
4 Structural Problems of Labour Market
5 Characteristics of Global Employment
6 New Technologies, Labour Markets and Employment
7 Structural Characteristics of Employment in Turkey 1: Underemployment, Labor Force Participation, Distribution of Employment by Sectors, Informal Sector
8 Midterm Exam
9 Structural Characteristics of Employment in Turkey 2: Distribution by Age Group, Educational Status, Status in Employment and Occupational Group, Informal Employment
10 Definition, Components and Types of Unemployment
11 Structure and Characteristics of Unemployment in Turkey
12 Youth Unemployment and Job Search
13 Active and Passive Employment Policies against Unemployment
14 Unemployment and Flexibility

Recomended or Required Reading

BIÇERLI, M. Kemal. (2009). Çalışma Ekonomisi. 5. Baskı, Istanbul: Beta Basım.
GHOSE, Ajit K., MAJID, Nomaan ve ERNST, Christoph. (2010). Küresel Istihdam Sorunu. (Çev. Edt.: Ömer Faruk Çolak), Ankara: Efil Yayınevi.
Global Employment Trends 2011. (2011). Global Employment Trends 20011: The Challenge of Jobs Recovery. Geneva: ILO Publication.
GÜNDOĞAN, Naci ve BIÇERLI, M. Kemal. (2004). Çalışma Ekonomisi. Eskişehir: AÜ Yayın No: 1461.
GÜRSEL, Seyfettin ve LEVENT Haluk. (2002). Türkiye'de Işgücü Piyasası ve Işsizlik. Istanbul: TÜSIAD Yayın No: 2002/12-354.
GÜRSEL, Seyfettin, LEVENT, H., ILKKARACAN, I., ULUS, M., TAŞTI, E., SEZER, D., YÖRÜKOĞLU ERATAK, A., EZBERCI, H. ve ORHAN, K. (2004). Türkiye'de Işgücü Piyasasının Kurumsal Yapısı ve Işsizlik. Istanbul: TÜSIAD Yayın No: 2004-11/381.
LORDOĞLU, Kuvvet ve ÖZKAPLAN, Nurcan. (2003). Çalışma Iktisadı. Istanbul: Der Yayınları.
RIMA, Ingrid H. (1981). Labor Markets, Wages, and Employment. New York: W.W. Norton&Company.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Assignment, Presentation, Question-Answer, Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

+ 90 0.232.3010351
t.demirbilek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 04:00 pm-05:00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511