Labor market current event summary

Labor market current event summary

Labor market current event summary

The assignment requires us to find a current event, and discuss it.

The article should be related to employment/unemployment rate, labor force participation, neoclassical model of leisure and consumption choice, income effect, substitution effect, reservation wage, labor supply elasticity, cash grant, fade-out cash grant. (not all of them need to be included but some of them)

Finding Articles:

Your news article should come from a reputable source (for example, but not limited to: The New York

Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Economist, Sacramento Bee, etc.), and should have been

written/published within 3 weeks of the date you submit the assignment. Some news outlets have free

online access.