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Course Name	Turkish	Çalışma Ekonomisi
	English	Labor Economics
Course Code	ECN 432E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	8	3	-	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün
Course Objectives		To introduce you to the concepts, issues and policies related to the labor market, a market that most of you will spend a significant portion of your life participating in. This will be accomplished by examining and analyzing the operations of the labor market and its results from a theoretical and an empirical perspective.
Course Description		Students will become proficient in evaluating economic, political-economic and socio-economic aspects of labor as a resource. More specifically;
Course Outcomes		• Evolution of labor as a resource in production • Workers’ labor force participation decisions • Development of human capital • Labor demand • Unemployment and income assistance programs • Determination of wages. • Economics of labor unions • Government Involvement in labor markets • Impact of immigration on labor market • Discrimination in the labor market
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