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Module title:

Quantitative Ethics: Poverty and Inequality Analysis

Module title (english):

Quantitative Ethics: Poverty and Inequality Analysis

Module number:

82-021-VWLECO08-H-0507

Level:

Bachelor (UNI)

Course of study:

Type:

Modul

Organising faculty/Language Center:

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Instructors responsible:

Althammer, Jörg

Examiners:

Credit points (ECTS):

competencies/skills:

On successful completion of this course students will
- understand the different concepts of poverty and inequality measures
- be able to carry out own empirical research related to poverty and inequality analysis

course content/topics:

- Students get a well-grounded introduction to poverty and inequality measurement
- Content includes
- concepts of poverty
- poverty indicators
- distributions of income and wealth
- discrimination at the labor market
- inequality indicators
- concepts of pro-poor-growth
- social mobility
- Empirical analysis of poverty and inequality with the statistics program ‘R’

formal requirements of admission:

recommended qualifications:

Basic knowledge of economics and statistics

Lehr- und Lernformen/Lehrveranstaltungstypen:

- Theoretical introduction in each topic followed by computer exercises
- Presentation of results by students
- Group discussions

requirements for the attainment of ECTS points:

Work performance will be evaluated by means of case studies related to the discussed topics

workload/distribution of ECTS points within the module:

40 h = Time of attendance lecture
30 h = Preparation and postprocessing lecture
80 h = Case studies preparation
150 h = Total workload

calculation of module marks:

Case studies 100%

teaching/learning method:

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