Economics

Students that will successfully pass the exam on Economics of Inequality fully understand issues related to measuring and defining economic inequalities and know main theories which try to explain their trend. In addition they will fully understand welfare system models, in particular pension systems, and will be able to evaluate how State and market can achieve many objectives in terms of equity and efficiency. In addition, they will know the characteristics of pension systems and the link between income distribution and standard of living. Such knowledge is extremely useful both for those people who want to continue studying economics within the academia and for those students who want to enter the labour market in the social field and or in research centres. SKILLS ACHIEVED: Students that will successfully pass the exam on Economics of Inequality will be able to measure and assess trends and determinants of income distribution. Further, they will be able to analyse welfare systems and distributive effects of different policies. Hence they will fully comprehend ongoing debate on economic inequalities and on welfare state policies and they will be able to read and understand official documents provided by various economic institutions and scientific papers dealing with welfare state systems.