CIDE-4111 Seminar on Local Economic Development
Employment is the link between economic and social issues, between home and society, between public and private entities, between education and production. Analyzing the labor market is a core issue in the concerns about development. It is important in social issues because of its long-lasting impacts on the quality of life of human groups, as part of cultural issues due to the change of identities and social practices, as part of political and institutional issues because it provides legitimacy to a society and the redesign of power organizations, as part of economic issues because it generates and allows social reproduction. Development dimensions are related not only to labor, but also to time and space scales thereof. This concern has been essential in looking at the relation between global and local aspects, between national and municipal contexts. From the local viewpoint, it is a relatively novel function for administration and local governments. This course incorporates the principal approaches and theoretical perspectives as Local Economic Development practices for employment analysis, which will be dwelled on based on debates over agglomeration, innovation and governance, as common issues for globalization and gender for the analysis of labor and labor markets, in order to locate one of the most important concerns in political, institutional and economic life within the perspective of local and regional development.
Instructor
Pineda Javier
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