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The course covers the theory and practice of:
-The supply and demand for labour
-Wage formation: compensating wage differences, human capital and efficiency wages and labour market organisations
-Education and the labour market
-Gender differences in the labour market
-Migration, integration and discrimination in the labour market
-Causes and consequences of unemployment
-Active and passive labour market policy

In the empirical part of the course, special emphasis is given to conditions and institutions of the Swedish labour market, and comparisons are made with conditions and institutions in other countries.

Instruction is in the form of lectures and student presentations of selected course literature in the seminars.

Progressive specialisation: G1F (has less than 60 credits in first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)

Education level: Undergraduate level

Selection:

Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.

This course is included in the following programme

• Programme in Business and Economics (studied during year 3)
• Master Programme in Economics: Master (studied during year 1)
• Political Science (studied during year 3)