sow927 - Labour market and social inequality (Course overview)

Department of Social Sciences

6 KP

Module components

Semester courses Sommersemester 2023

Examination

Seminar

1.07.211 - Schwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt: Income and labour market inequalities in a comparative perspective (Lehrsprache Englisch, Prüfungsleistung Deutsch oder Englisch)
- Prof. Dr. Martin Heidenreich
Monday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (from 17/04/23)

In industrialized societies, participation in social life is closely linked to income from work and thus access to the labor market. The Master module "Labor Market and Inequality" starts with the question which occupational structures characterize the German and European labor market and where dividing lines between "outsiders" and "insiders" on the labor market run. This is partcularly relevant for the egalitarian employment regimes of Europe. In the first part of the seminar, the focus will be on approaches to and empirical research on the "inequality of income opportunities". Afterwards, interrelations between selected social groups (long-term unemployed, young people, migrants and women) and relevant institutional conditions (social security systems and activation policies, education systems and protection clauses, family policies, technological developments and social redistribution policies) are discussed (Part 2). In the complementary workshop, selected topics of the seminar will be expanded. Students will familiarize themselves with relevant data sets and carry out their own empirical analyses using the EU-SILC or other comparative datasets.
1.07.212 - Schwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt: Income and labour market inequalities in a comparative perspective (Lehrsprache Englisch, Prüfungsleistung Deutsch oder Englisch)
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The course times are not decided yet.

Working group

Seminar
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European Studies in Global Perspectives

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1.07.211 - Schwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt: Income and labour market inequalities in a comparative perspective (Lehrsprache Englisch, Prüfungsleistung Deutsch oder Englisch)
- Prof. Dr. Martin Heidenreich
Monday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (from 17/04/23)

In industrialized societies, participation in social life is closely linked to income from work and thus access to the labor market. The Master module "Labor Market and Inequality" starts with the question which occupational structures characterize the German and European labor market and where dividing lines between "outsiders" and "insiders" on the labor market run. This is partcularly relevant for the egalitarian employment regimes of Europe. In the first part of the seminar, the focus will be on approaches to and empirical research on the "inequality of income opportunities". Afterwards, interrelations between selected social groups (long-term unemployed, young people, migrants and women) and relevant institutional conditions (social security systems and activation policies, education systems and protection clauses, family policies, technological developments and social redistribution policies) are discussed (Part 2). In the complementary workshop, selected topics of the seminar will be expanded. Students will familiarize themselves with relevant data sets and carry out their own empirical analyses using the EU-SILC or other comparative datasets.
1.07.212 - Schwerpunkt Arbeitsmarkt: Income and labour market inequalities in a comparative perspective (Lehrsprache Englisch, Prüfungsleistung Deutsch oder Englisch)
- in Bearbeitung
The course times are not decided yet.

Hinweise zum Modul

Module examination

Skills to be acquired in this module

Nach Abschluss des Moduls sind die Studierenden in der Lage, den Zusammenhang zwischen Arbeitsmarktprozessen und Strukturen sozialer Ungleichheit zu analysieren.
Das Master-Seminar vermittelt drei Kernkompetenzen:

Interdisziplinäre theoretische Kenntnisse sowie die Fähigkeit, verschiedene Theorieansätze gegeneinander abzuwägen und miteinander zu verknüpfen;
Fundierte empirische Kenntnisse aus den Bereichen Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitsmarktreformen und soziale Ungleichheit;
Die Fähigkeit zur methodischen und gesellschaftlichen Verortung von empirischen Forschungsarbeiten zum Thema Arbeitsmarkt und Ungleichheit.