ECON2102
Macroeconomics
Tutorial 3
1. College premium
As a Senior Advisor of the Finance Minister, you have been requested to analyse the the effect of the 2020 pandemic on the labour market. While you were preparing the data, you noticed that between 1970 and 1980 the fraction of college-educated workers increased from about 22% to 30%. The large inflow of college-educated workers into the labour market pushed the college wage premium downward (see Figure 7.8 from the textbook).
a) Use a labour supply/demand diagram to explain this fact to the Finance Minister
b) After 1980 the college premium starts increasing while the supply of college- educated workers increased as well. Can you explain what is happening in the labour market?
2. Unemployment rate
Last week statistics about the performance of the labour marker were officially released. As an external advisor of the ABS you are concerned about some measurement issues. You have decided to re-compute some basic statistics based on the following information: the size of the population is about 309 persons. Twenty of them are kids younger than 14, ten are about to turn 16 next summer. Some kids (age 17 - 21) are just playing video games the whole day (7 kids in total). 69.9% of the population works in this economy.
a) Compute the unemployment rate for this economy.
b) Compute the unemployment rate for the next summer.
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