UCL - Social model and employment

[EUSL2105]

[30h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Philippe Pochet

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The aim is that the student will be able to understand the legal framework, to identify the political dynamics and actors strategies, and to analyse the challenges in the historical perspective. It also covers some aspects of political economy linked to the social challenges of EMU.
The course links the analysis of a sectorial policy with the European integration theories.

Main themes

Historical analysis of the social dimension of the European integration: social policy, free movement of workers, employment policy, social protection (coordination, open method of coordination), structural funds, social dialogue, social consequences of the monetary union, social exclusion, social challenges of enlargement...

Content and teaching methods

The teaching is built on an historical analysis which distinguishes between various periods of the European social policy. For each period four variables are used: level of diversity of the national social systems, economic and social environment and balance between left and right, main social themes and mode of governance (convergence, upward harmonisation, minimal standards).
It will combine legal, political science and political economy approaches placing the social policy dynamic in a broader context.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Period: 2nd semester.
Periodicity: yearly.
Language: French.
Prerequisite: none.
Evaluation: written or oral examination.
Support: to be determined by the professor in charge.
References: to be determined by the professor in charge.