Curated OER
How Wages Are Determined in Monopsonistic Labor Markets
For this economics worksheet, students review how wages are determined in monopolistic labor markets as they use a graph to answer ten short answer questions.
Curated OER
The Labour Market: Flexibility
Students divide into groups to research and produce a short summary outlining the operation of the labour market in the UK. They use supply and demand diagrams to illustrate their discussion.
Other
Foundation for Teaching Economics: Homepage
The Foundation for Teaching Economics is committed to excellence in economic education. The Foundation offers free workshops for high school educators and students. This site includes workshop dates, locations, and registration...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 4: Demand and Supply at Work in Labor Markets
By the end of this section, you will be able to predict shifts in the demand and supply curves of the labor market, explain the impact of new technology on the demand and supply curves of the labor market, and explain price floors in the...
Econoclass
Econoclass: Supply and Demand in Labor Markets
This study of the demand for labor discusses supply, demand, equilibrium, and why wages in some professions are higher than in others.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Educator Page)
This instructional activity ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Be All You Can Be for Minimum Wage? (Student Page)
This lesson ask students to calculate the percentage change in military strength over the last two decades, hypothesize economic (and non-economic) explanations for these changes, test hypothetical explanations by reading an economic...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:how Economists Use Theories & Models to Understand Economic Issues
By the end of this section, you will be able to interpret a circular flow diagram, explain the importance of economic theories and models, and describe goods and services markets and labor markets.
Yale University
Yale Department of Economics: Surplus Labor [Pdf]
An evaluation of the microeconomics of surplus labor, this 26-page requires Adobe Acrobat.
Other
Amos Web Gloss Arama: Labor Market
A basic definition for what the labor market is and how labor market wages affect labor markets.