The basic aim of the course is to create discussion on the structure and development of European employment systems and to help students to understand the reasons of disparities, variations and path dependencies in the development of European labor markets and employment systems. After the course students will understand why national employment systems are under pressures of change and why the policies which ought to be able to regulate and manage the change are requested to become more global in their targets and means of interventions.

This course is an on-line course with no contact hours. The course will be conducted in the Moodle learning environment. 

Max 25 students. Students will be accepted to the seminar in the following order:

1. degree students of the MDP in Comparative Social Policy and Welfare

2. degree students of the other Global Society programmes (MDP in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, MDP in Quantitative Social Research, MDP in Global and Transnational Studies)

3. other degree students of UTA

4. exchange students