Employment and labor - Course Description

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PUBLIC POLICY [6]
PUB PLC CM230. Labor Markets and Public Policy. (4)
(Formerly numbered M230.) (Same as Management M259C.) Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Designed for graduate students. Survey of major topics in economic analysis of labor markets and public policies toward the labor market. Topics include labor force trends and measurement, compensation determination, productivity, internal labor markets, human capital, union wage effects, unemployment, and minority and female labor-market experience. Concurrently scheduled with course C142. S/U or letter grading. Prof. Daniel Mitchell [7]

PUB PLC CM231. Comparative Industrial Relations. (4)
(Same as Management M255.) Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours Requisite: Management 409 or elementary knowledge of labor economics. At national and international levels, historical and contemporary analytical comparison of political, social, and economic contexts influencing human resource systems of selected developed countries. In addition to discussing possible frameworks for analyzing human resource systems, examination of institutions and ideologies of labor, management, and government, and interaction of their power relationships; substance and manner of determination of "web of rules" governing rights and obligations of the parties; and resolution of conflicts. Concurrently scheduled with course C144. S/U or letter grading. Prof. Archie Kleingartner [8]

PUB PLC M232. Labor Relations: Process and Law. (4)
(Same as Management M250A.) Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Consideration, at advanced level, of collective bargaining process, labor/management agreement, administration of the contract, law of labor/management relations, union structure and goals, and influence of external labor markets on labor relations. S/U or letter grading. Prof. Daniel Mitchell [7]

PUB PLC 233. Employment Issues in California. (4)
Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Designed for graduate students. Drawing on resources of UCLA Business Forecasting Project, introduction to general features of California labor market, analysis of employment fluctuations and forecasting techniques including linkages between employment fluctuations in California and elsewhere in the country, and social issues related to labor market. Letter grading. Prof. Daniel Mitchell [7]

PUB PLC 234. Labor Markets and Social Policy. (4)
Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Examination of analytical tools and conceptual models needed to understand policies directed toward people in lower tail of income distribution. Concepts include static and dynamic labor supply, labor demand, compensating differentials, human capital, and economic models of immigration and crime. Letter grading. Prof. Jeffrey Grogger [9]

PUB PLC 271. Urban Poverty, Workforce Development, and Public Policy. (4)
Lecture, three hours; outside study, nine hours. Limited to graduate students. Examination of how urban labor markets function, particularly low-skill labor markets, and exploration of how public and private interventions affect outcomes for disadvantaged populations. In first half of course, major theories of low-skill workers' labor market problems in employment and wages; in second half, employment and training programs, policy initiatives and implementation, and new directions in workforce development. Letter grading. Prof. Michael A. Stoll [10]

ECONOMICS [11]

ECON 202B. Macroeconomics: Business Cycles. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Survey of representative agent and complete market models of short-run fluctuations. Facts about fluctuations and long-term growth. Real business cycle theory. Calibrating and simulating dynamic models. Asset prices, money, and inflation. Taxation of factor incomes. Cyclical aspects of employment.

ECON 253A. Topics in Public Finance . (4)
Lecture, three hours. Current research in public finance. Content varies. Topics include Social Security taxes and programs, unemployment insurance, public provision of medical care, theory of public goods, and theory of public choice. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

ECON 253B. Topics in Public Finance. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Current research in public finance. Content varies. Topics include Social Security taxes and programs, unemployment insurance, public provision of medical care, theory of public goods, and theory of public choice. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

HEALTH SERVICES [12]

HLT SER 434. Employer/Employee Health Management . (4)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Prerequisites: course 100, a combination of three graduate courses in health planning, hospital finance, health policy, health insurance, occupational health, health services research, and health information systems, or equivalent, consent of instructor. Preview and analysis of how employer and employee groups provide, sponsor, and manage health-related services for others.

EDUCATION [13]

EDU 442B. Legal Aspects of Educational Management and Practice . (4)
Examination of structures and kinds of law governing educational systems in the U.S.; constitutional dimensions of church/state relations; employees' civil rights and legal aspects of hiring, firing, and negotiating procedures; student attendance, control, and civil rights.

MANAGEMENT [14]

MGMT 201A. Business Forecasting: Turning Numbers into Knowledge. (4)
Discussion, three hours. Preparation: familiarity with linear regression. Examination of one approach to analytical thinking -- forcing numerical and textual data into carefully formulated alternative models. Data studied include macroeconomic variables (growth, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, and exchange rates), industry data, and firm data. Letter grading.

MGMT 224. Topics in Business Law. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 403. Topics-oriented course covering wide range of current legal issues that confront entrepreneurs and corporate managers. Topics include venture capital, business formation and integration, contracts, property rights, product marketing, employment, creditor claims, and bankruptcy. S/U or letter grading.

MGMT 250B. Human Resource Management: Process and Law . (4)
Prerequisite: course 250A. Systematic exposure to theoretical and empirical literature concerning administrative and legal aspects of human resource management. Topics include processes of managing human resources and impact of governmental policies on employer/employee relations.

MGMT 252. Systems of Employee/Management Participation . (4)
Designed to provide understanding of systems of employee/management participation around the world (apart from traditional collective bargaining systems). Specific concepts such as worker participation in decision making, industrial democracy, joint consultation, workers councils, profit sharing.
MGMT 253. Employee Discipline, Discharge, and Grievance/Appeal Settlement . (4)
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Analysis of conflict in the employment relationship; theoretical and empirical findings. Principles and philosophies that underlie resolution of labor/management impasses, with emphasis on grievance procedures, arbitration, mediation, and fact-finding.

MGMT 406. Global Economy. (4)
Prerequisites: courses 402, 403, 405. Provides analytical framework required for understanding the way changing macroeconomic conditions in world economy affect economic growth, inflation, interest rates behavior, exchange rate determination, global competitiveness, unemployment, and the trade account. Provides skills to enable students to assess critically how developments in world economy affect particular industry environments.

POLITICAL SCIENCE [15]

POL SCI 257. Labor and Working-Class Politics . (4)
Discussion, three hours. Questions and topics on comparative labor and working-class politics.

POL SCI 265. Politics and Economy . (4)
Discussion, three hours. Analysis of theoretical and practical relationships between economic organization and governmental institutions. Development and political implications of the market system, banking and finance, corporate enterprise, and organized labor.

URBAN PLANNING [16]

URB PLN 236B. Globalization. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course M236A. Application of theories of regional economic development, location, and trade learned in course M236A to contemporary process known as globalization. Examination of nature and effects of globalization on development, employment, and social structure, along with implications for policy. Letter grading.

URB PLN C237C. Southern California Regional Economy. (4)
Lecture, three hours. Introduction to regional economy, with emphasis on Los Angeles. Key economic sectors, labor market composition, and review of conflicting portrayals depicting dynamics of region. Two all-day bus tours of key economic regions and guest lectures by regional experts included. Concurrently scheduled with course C196. Letter grading.