Educational objectives The accelerating globalization of law and legal practice places important new demands on legal education. To help students understand law in a global context, the international law curriculum integrates introductory level courses with electives in the areas of institutional law, international environmental law, trade law and human rights law.
Results
The students who pass the exam will be able to appreciate the political dimension of the international juridical problems and to identify the tools to facilitate the resolutions of international controversie
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Educational objectives The course aims to analyse the general public law issues of the economy, such as de-Woody from dictation and between them, then focusing on principles governing State intervention in the economy; the course therefore has as purpose to provide the basics of the State, the local legal system, national, European and international levels; principles governing the functioning of the organs to constitutional relevance and functioning of public administration within the market, and anything with regard particularly to the intervention of the public power in banking and financial law.
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Educational objectives General objectives.
In summary, the general objective is to show the role of market mechanisms and the main institutions typical of the labour market in determining the variables of primary interest for social welfare, in terms of both efficiency and equity.
Firstly, the course provides knowledge of the basic theoretical models for understanding the functioning of the labour market and its institutions, and the main determinants of employment, wages and unemployment. The theory presented covers first the demand, supply and equilibrium models under conditions of perfect competition, but also includes the main deviations from this model both in theory and with reference to observable reality. From the point of view of theory, the course is mainly at the microeconomic level but it also emphasises the connections with macroeconomic equilibrium, in particular with reference to unemployment.
Furthermore, the course provides an introduction to the basic concepts and indicators necessary for the description and empirical analysis of the phenomena concerning labour in advanced economies, and the main stylised facts (as for employment, unemployment, wages in aggregate and their main differentiation by territorial area, gender, age, education), with reference to the Italian reality and that of the main countries comparable to it, at present and its evolution in the recent past.
Insofar as the main variables concerning labour are the subject of economic policy choices by governments, the course aims to enable students to develop a broad vision and a critical capacity to compare the various theoretical models with each other and these models with the real issues.
With regard to the specific contents of the course, after introducing labour supply and demand and the competitive equilibrium, as well as its properties of efficiency and equity, some policies such as the minimum wage and payroll taxes are considered, whose redistributive effects and those on employment and unemployment levels are considered. Furthermore, the theory of discrimination and some tools for its empirical analysis are introduced.
On the labour supply side, the course includes the theory of human capital, which describes the motivations behind individual educational choices and predicts their consequences in terms of wages. Workplace training of workers is also considered. In addition, the theory of international migration is presented with a focus on its effects in the labour markets of the receiving countries.
The course then goes on to present the main deviations from the perfectly competitive labour market. First, the case of the presence of trade unions and collective bargaining and the analysis of their consequences in terms of wages and employment. Secondly, the case of market power on the corporate side, with the so-called monopsony model.
In addition, a number of useful models are considered for analysing salient aspects of relations between workers and employers. In particular, some notions of market failures will be applied, such as information asymmetries, which are useful in explaining involuntary unemployment.
Finally, some relevant macroeconomic models, the concept of steady-state unemployment equilibrium and the Beveridge curve will also be presented with particular reference to the unemployment issue.
In the course, exercises are planned to apply the main models with quantitative examples and exercises. In addition, a number of concrete cases relating to issues of particular relevance in Italy or other comparable countries will be presented, showing the data describing the phenomenon, its evolution over time and discussing the policies proposed or applied in view of the objectives set.
Specific objectives.
More specifically, the course aims to provide the student with:
A) the knowledge of the main labour market theories starting from the perfect competition model but also considering models that examine non-competitive situations and market failures;
B) the ability to critically compare the assumptions and implications provided by the various theoretical models;
C) the ability to apply the theoretical models and empirical tools acquired to examples of real labour market problems that are discussed in class;
D) the ability to distinguish cyclical influences and structural factors in the evolution of the labour markets and to formulate appropriate intervention hypotheses as a remedy for specific problems;
E) a basic knowledge of the reality of the labour market in Italy and other advanced economies and the main policies and institutions that regulate its functioning.
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Educational objectives The course aims at providing the knowledge of history, theories and economic models for the running of institutions and welfare state systems. The instruments provided are especially functional to operate:
- within institutions and research centers for formulation, application, assessment and control of economic and social policies;
- within private institutions and in the no-profit sector, operating in the field of financing, services and social insurances;
- within professions and jobs in the social field - at local, national and international level – and connected to the labour market operations.
The acquisition of the knowledge aimed to deepen economic, social and institutional issues at the local, national and international level.
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Educational objectives The learning objectives of the French language course are to lead the student to:
1. Acquire the necessary skills to communicate easily about various aspects of every day life and also in specific study and work situations in French.
2. Investigate aspects of French civilization and culture.
3. Familiarize themselves with the socio-economic lexicon through authentic texts.
4. Develop learning strategies in order to improve language skills, with a view to lifelong learning.
The objectives can be defined in terms of the following levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR):
• comprehension of written messages B2
• comprehension of oral messages B2
• production of written texts B1
• production of oral messages B1
(The descriptive content of the skills defined for the various levels is available at:
in French (http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/LanguageSelfAssessmentGrid/fr)
in Italian (http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/LanguageSelfAssessmentGrid/it) .
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students who have passed the examination will possess:
• a mastery of the French language in daily life and study and professional communicative situations.
• a knowledge of the most important cultural aspects of French-speaking countries;
• learning strategies which allow them to continue the learning of French in an independent way.
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Educational objectives The objectives can be defined in terms of the following levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages(CEFR):
• oral and written comprehension B2/C1.
• oral production and interaction B2.
• written production B1/B2
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Educational objectives The course aims at examining the two alternative approaches to the theory of value and income distribution that we find in the history of economic analysis: the approach of the classical economists, based on the notion of ‘social surplus’, and the approach of the marginalist (or ‘neoclassical’) economists, which relies on demand and supply functions for factors of production. As regards the classical economists, we shall first examine the early contributions of F. Quesnay, A. Smith, D. Ricardo and K. Marx, and then the modern version of classical theory. As regards the marginalist theory of value and distribution, attention will primarily be focused on the traditional version based on the notion of ‘capital’ as a factor of production. The last part of the course, however, will briefly examine the different version put forward by L. Walras and revived by current general equilibrium theory.
Specific goals
More in detail, the course aims at allowing the students:
(A) to gain a deeper understanding of central elements of traditional microeconomic theory, especially as regards the foundations of the demand and supply functions for productive factors on which the determination the distributive variables relies;
(B) to acquire a basic knowledge of the developments of the classical theory of value and distribution;
(C) to critically assess the two alternative approaches to the theory of value, as well as the different conclusions they reach as regards the functioning of market economies;
(D) to orient themselves in the ongoing debate in the field of the theory of value and distribution.
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