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Accessing and Using Labour Economics for Leaders
Accessibility Statement
Acknowledgements
1.1 - What Is Economics, and Why Is It Important?
1.2 - Microeconomics and Macroeconomics
1.3 - How Economists Use Theories and Models to Understand Economic Issues
1.4 - How To Organize Economies: An Overview of Economic Systems
1.5 - Demand and Supply in Financial Markets
1.6 - The Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information
1.7 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions
1.8 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions for Demand Markets
1.9 - Reading list
2.1 - How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget Constraint
2.2 - The Production Possibilities Frontier and Social Choices
2.3 - Confronting Objections to the Economic Approach
2.4 - Confronting Scarcity: Choices in Production
2.5 - Factors of Production
2.6 - The Production Possibilities Curve
2.7 - Applications of the Production Possibilities Model
2.8 - Opportunity Costs & Sunk Costs
2.9 - Economic Models
2.10 - Why It Matters: Labour Markets
2.11 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions
2.12 - Review and Practice
2.13 - Reading List
3.1 - Demand
3.2 - Supply
3.3 - Demand and Supply
3.4 - Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium
3.5 - Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services
3.6 - Shifts in Demand and Supply for Goods and Services
3.7 - Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four-Step Process
3.8 - Demand, Supply, and Efficiency
3.9 - Price Ceilings and Price Floors
3.10 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions
3.11 - Learn By Doing: Shortage and Surplus
3.12 - Review and Practice
3.13 - Reading List
4.1 - Introduction to Labour and Financial Markets
4.2 - Labour Market Equilibrium and Wage Determinants
4.3 - Labour-Leisure Choices
4.4 - Labour and Financial Markets
4.5 - Putting It Together: Applications of Supply and Demand
4.6 - Labour Markets
4.7 - The Demand for Labour
4.8 - Labour Supply
4.9 - Theory of Labour Markets
4.10 - Demand and Supply at Work in Labour Markets
4.11 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions
5.1 - Elasticity in Areas Other Than Price
5.2 - Calculating Elasticity
5.3 - Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
5.4 - Polar Cases of Elasticity and Constant Elasticity
5.5 - Elasticity and Pricing
6.1 - Are Bitcoin and other digital currencies the future of money?
6.2 - Labour markets
6.3 - The Changing Workforce
6.4 - Immigration
6.5 - Reading List
7.1 - Work in Canada
7.2 - Introduction to Urban, Industrial, and Divided: Socio-Economic Change, 1867-1920
7.3 - Reading List
8.1 - Introduction to Unemployment
8.2 - How Economists Define and Compute Unemployment Rate
8.3 - Patterns of Unemployment
8.4 - What Causes Changes in Unemployment over the Short Run
8.5 - What Causes Changes in Unemployment over the Long Run
8.6 - Unemployment
8.7 - Measuring Unemployment
8.8 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions
8.9 - Reading list
9.1 - Why It Matters: Income Distribution
9.2 - Introduction to Poverty and Economic Inequality
9.3 - Drawing the Poverty Line
9.4 - The Poverty Trap
9.5 - Income Inequality: Measurement and Causes
9.6 - Government Policies to Reduce Income Inequality
9.7 - Self-Check, Critical Thinking & Review Questions
9.8 - Readings list
10.1 - Taxes and Tax Planning
10.2 - Employment Discrimination
11.1 - Structural changes in the economy: the growth of a knowledge society
11.2 - Productivity and education
11.3 - Putting it together: Labour markets
11.4 - Reading List
Reading List compiled by Norm Smith.
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