1	Course Title:	LABOUR ECONOMICS I
2	Course Code:	CAL3101
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	5
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	5
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	3
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	None
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. RABİHAN YÜKSEL ARABACI
16	Course Lecturers:	Öğr. Gör. DR. Aysu SERDAR
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Doç. Dr. Rabihan Yüksel Arabacı rabihan@uludag.edu.tr, 0224 2940728 Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi İİBF, Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri Bölümü Görükle/Bursa
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	The aim of the course is to understand how the labor market works.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	It has a contribution towards creating a basis for the development of students' professional skills related to labor economics.

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Understanding the functioning of the labor market. ; 2 Understanding the characteristics of the labor market. ; 3 Learning the labor market actors and the relationship between them.; 4 Learning the factors that determine the labor supply and obtaining the labor supply curve.; 5 Learning the factors that determine the labor demand and obtaining the labor demand curve.; 6 To understand new developments in the field of labor economics.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Labor Economics: Some Basic Concepts
2	Labor market: definition, actors and features
3	Labor supply
4	The effect of wage and non-wage income on labor supply
5	The impact of welfare policies on labor supply
6	Household labor supply
7	Lifetime supply of labor
8	Labor supply at the macro level: LFPR and its determinants
9	Short-term labor demand
10	Long-term labor demand
11	Substitution elasticity
12	Equilibrium in a perfectly competitive labor market
13	Equilibrium in non-fully competitive labor markets: Monopsone
14	Equilibrium in non-perfectly competitive labor markets: Monopoly

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Çalışma Ekonomisi, Kemal Biçerli. Çalışma Ekonomosi, George J. Borjas (cev. Ç.E. Şahin, K. Gökten, Ü. Akçay). Labor Economics , Robert F.Elliott Modern Labor Economics, Ronald G.Ehrenberg, Robert S. Smith
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	2	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Measurement and evaluation are carried out with multiple choice test questions, completion questions, and short-answer written questions.
Information	This course is evaluated with a relative evaluation system.

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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	3	42
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	14	3	42
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	1	25	25
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	43	43
Total WorkLoad			152
Total workload/ 30 hr			5,07
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 LO1 4 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 3 LO2 5 4 4 3 1 1 1 3 2 3 LO3 3 2 2 2 1 2 0 2 2 2 LO4 4 4 4 3 1 2 1 3 1 3 LO5 5 5 5 4 4 3 2 5 3 3 LO6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High