Crash Course
Labor Markets and Minimum Wage: Crash Course Economics
How much should you get paid for your job? Well, that depends on a lot of factors. Your skill set, the demand for the skills you have, and what other people are getting paid around you all factor in. In a lot of ways, labor markets work...
TED Talks
TED: How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison - Alice Goffman
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist...
TED Talks
Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market
Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours -- but it's difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is working on that. He explains how the same technology that powers modern financial...
TED Talks
TED: 5 hiring tips every company (and job seeker) should know | Nithya Vaduganathan
To keep up with a rapidly evolving job market, hiring practices need to change, too. In this practical talk, talent strategy expert Nithya Vaduganathan shares five crucial tips every hiring manager (and job seeker) should know in order...
Curated Video
Labor Markets and Minimum Wage: Crash Course Economics
How much should you get paid for your job? Well, that depends on a lot of factors. Your skill set, the demand for the skills you have, and what other people are getting paid around you all factor in. In a lot of ways, labor markets work...
Science360
Inventing the Way Forward - Graduate Education for the STEM Workforce (2)
National Science Foundation
Division of Graduate Education Open House: Inventing the Way Forward: Graduate Education for the STEM Workforce
The first panel, The Big Picture: Challenges and Opportunities in Graduate Education, six...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gender Equality Works for Everyone.
According to Colorado State Professor Elissa Braunstein, macroeconomics has a habit of misunderstanding and even misrepresenting labor. As a result, we see increased gender conflict and structural inequalities in the labor force....
ACDC Leadership
Are you faster than Clifford? Micro Edition
Can you draw the graphs of microeconomics faster than me? Also, share this video with your teacher and see if he or she can beat my best times. Here are my times: 15 seconds- Natural monopoly regulated at socially optimal 23 seconds-...
ACDC Leadership
The Push-Up Machine - Labor Market Activity
This is a great activity to simulate the labor market and show how a business decides how many workers to hire. Watch the video and see if you can figure out the following: 1. How many workers should be hired to maximize profit? 2. What...
Healthcare Triage
Would Medicare for All Increase Your Wages?
Medicare for All, which would extend health coverage to all Americans, has been a hot topic of debate in recent years. Researchers have looked into the many ways that a switch to Medicare for All might change our lives, and one of those...
Curated Video
Understanding Transfer Earnings and Economic Rent in Labor Markets
This video is a tutorial on the topics of economic rent and transfer earnings in labor markets. It starts with defining these two terms and explaining their differences, using examples and diagrams to illustrate the concepts. The video...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Race Has a Regional Dimension in America’s Political Economy
Stanford economic historian Professor Gavin Wright, addressing the Institute’s conference on the economics of race, argues that the conditions facing the children of the great migration from the South are very different to the conditions...
The Wall Street Journal
Amanda Cage on the Future of the American Labor Market
As employers in the trade sector offer new recruits higher pay, better benefits and signing-on bonuses, Amanda Cage, president and CEO of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, joins us to discuss the future of trade schools across...
The Wall Street Journal
The Federal Reserve’s Plan for Taming Inflation
With inflation at a 40-year high, a tight labor market and sustained supply chain issues,. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell discusses his aim of raising interest rates without causing a recession.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Male-centric Biases of Economic Models
The assumptions economists make in their models have implications not only for policymaking and choosing what data we collect, but also for the very definition of work, says Professor Maria Floro of American University. Many assumptions...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Why We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee
13 million people looking for living wage work is not a “full employment” economy. Why should the federal government adopt a jobs guarantee? Just ask the 13 million Americans looking for living wage work. That’s what Pavlina Tcherneva,...
The Wall Street Journal
S&P Global and NELP on the Current Outlook for the Jobs Market
U.S. Chief Economist from S&P Global, Beth Ann Bovino and NELP's Rebecca Dixon share tips on navigating unemployment and dissect the current outlook for the job market.
ACDC Leadership
The Labor Market: EconMovies #13
Teachers! I created NEW worksheets for all my EconMovies episodes and for all the Crash Course Economics episodes.
The Wall Street Journal
The Fed's Jerome Powell on the U.S. Economy
Chairman of The Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell discusses the state of the American economy, the potential impact on Main Street and how that will translate to jobseekers.
The Wall Street Journal
What Deficit?
Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, suggests the government can spend as much as it needs to fund ambitious programs such as infrastructure or clean energy, and still pay the bill. Learn how MMT would work and why it is gaining traction in...
The Wall Street Journal
Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard on the U.S. Economy
The central banker discusses interest rates, inflation and the ways that global events from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine are affecting America's economic picture.
Curated Video
Labor Supply and Wage Elasticity Explained
This video is an educational lesson on the supply of labor. The instructor explains the labor supply curve and how it shows the amount of labor workers are willing to provide at a given wage rate. They also discuss the factors that...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
How do we move beyond the “austerity” debates?
And how do they relate to our democratic institutions and institutional social relations? We debate these topics with Italian author Thomas Fazi, focusing on Europe but searching for answers to the most divisive economic debates of our...
The Wall Street Journal
Cecilia Rouse on the changing U.S. Economy
Chairwoman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers discusses inflation, the dislocated supply chain and the impact of vaccine mandates on the workforce.