Labour Market, Economic Growth and Inequality

Education facts

Code: SO7071

The course provides an overview of sociological and economic perspectives on growth and the distribution of rewards and resources within the labour markets of advanced industrialized countries. Themes include the development of economic growth, unemployment, and the distribution of incomes in different countries, supply and demand for qualifications on the labour market and the matching between them, the development of inequality in working life along the categories class, gender, and ethnicity, and the effects of globalization on national labour markets. The relation between theoretical models and empirical analyses withing these and similar fields is a primary focus in this course.

Entry requirements

Bachelor’s degree, English 6

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Labour Market, Economic Growth and Inequality

  Stockholm University

  Start date: 3 November 2025

  End date: 18 January 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %