9.1: Labor Market Trends

Chapter 9 Lesson 1: Labor Market Trends

• Graph Skills (p.218): #1 & 2
  
• Checkpoint (p.218): What important information can we learn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
• Graph Skills (p.219): #1 & 2
• Graph Skills (p.220): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.220): Why do companies engage in offshoring?
• Graph Skills (p.221): #1 & 2
• Summarize [in your own words] the 4 reasons for "temporary employees". (p.222)
• Case Study (p.223): How has the economic downturn changed the nature of employment for many people?
• Checkpoint (p.224): How are education and income connected?
• Graph Skills (p.225): #1 & 2
• Checkpoint (p.225): Why have real wages dropped in recent years?
• Section 1 Assessment (p.225): #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

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