LABRST 3A03- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 19 pages long!)
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Human rights, minimum wage, overtime, maternity leave. Involves analyzing the determinants of the various dimensions of labour supply and demand and their interaction in alternative market structures to determine wages, employment, unemployment. The impact of quasi- xed costs and legislatively imposed costs. Demand for the firm"s output and the firm"s competitiveness: The neoclassical model of labour supply and demand. Wage and employment in a competitive labour market: market clearing outcome. Labour market economics should be able to shed light on policy issues a ecting: Profile of immigration to canada: u(cid:374)til the (cid:373)id (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s o(cid:448)erall i(cid:373)(cid:373)igratio(cid:374) le(cid:448)els flu(cid:272)tuated (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidera(cid:271)l(cid:455, 200,000 immigrants per year until 2000. 280,000 in 2010: per capita immigration levels are slightly lower, source regions have changed dramatically. Graph- before the 1980 he levels or more cyclical, and the immigration level was higher. After the 1990s it was more stable. The source region has changed, before immigrants mostly came from uk, us and other.
