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19A

1. Identify Cause and Effect What drives the demand for workers in the auto industry? Explain.
2. Use Visual Information Look at the Labor Demand graph. Why is the labor demand curve negatively sloped?
3. Assess an Argument Jonah is looking for a summer job. He decides that working for the city as a trash collector is likely to pay more money than working at the ice cream shop. Explain why his argument makes sense.
4. Compare and Contrast Choose a job that requires unskilled labor and a job that requires professional labor. Compare and contrast the two jobs. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
5. Draw Conclusions Why is the supply of professional labor generally lower than the supply of unskilled or semi-skilled labor?
6. Determine Central Ideas Describe a situation in which a worker might decide to take legal action against his or her employer.
7. Vocabulary: Use Context Clues Look at how the term human capital is used in the section on wage discrimination. Based on the text, how would you define human capital?

8. Draw Inferences How can hiring temporary workers reduce the labor costs of a company?

9. With the advancement of technology, which jobs have been replaced by robots?

10. Which jobs do you predict will be replaced in the future as technology progresses?

11. Which jobs do you think are least likely to be replaced by robots? Why?

Unit 5 Assessment

1. If you were to start your own business, which business model (sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, nonprofit) would you adopt and why? Explain the benefits and costs of your choice. (2pts)

2. In what way(s) might the government get involved in the operations of business? (1pt)

3. What are the changes in patterns/trends of labor? Describe two. (2pts)

4. How is a wage determined? (1pt)

5. What factor(s) affect the wage? (1pts)

6. Argue whether it is better to join a union or decline membership and justify your argument. (3pts)

18B

1. Compare and Contrast According to the lesson, the U.S. economy has, over the past two decades, shifted from a manufacturing economy toward a service-producing economy. How do economists differentiate between the two?

2. Draw Inferences What improvements to computers do you think make it possible for them to be used in fields such as agriculture and forestry?

3. Draw Inferences Why do you think our nation has become a service economy? Do you think there is any relationship between the shift from manufacturing industries to service industries and the fact that jobs being shipped overseas? If so, what is that relationship?

4. Draw Inferences There are benefits to having only permanent employees at a company, and there are benefits to replacing such employees with temporary workers. Which do you think is better for a company. Why?

5. Analyze Interactions Why do you think the number of women in the labor force has nearly doubled in the last 50 years?

6. Summarize Why have real average wages decreased in the last couple of decades?