{"id":49726,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/why-are-some-occupations-paid-more-than-others-week-4-eco-365"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:24:15","slug":"why-are-some-occupations-paid-more-than-others-week-4-eco-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/why-are-some-occupations-paid-more-than-others-week-4-eco-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Some Occupations Paid More than Others? WEEK 4 ECO 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Purpose of Assignment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this assignment is so students may look at the microeconomic data and other sources for better understanding of trends and determinants of the labor market.<\/p>\n<p>We will look at the microeconomic data and other sources for better understanding of trends and determinants of the labor market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website provides public with an easy access to different statistical tools and different types of data presentation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Assignment Steps<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Select<\/b>&nbsp;one of the following surveys as a team, from the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/data.bls.gov\/cgi-bin\/surveymost?ce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BLS Current Employment Statistics survey (National)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goods-producing Employment \u2013 CES0600000001<\/li>\n<li>Construction Employment \u2013 CES2000000001<\/li>\n<li>Manufacturing Employment \u2013 CES3000000001<\/li>\n<li>Trade, Transportation, and Utilities Employment \u2013 CES4000000001<\/li>\n<li>Retail Trade Employment \u2013 CES4200000001<\/li>\n<li>Education and Health Services Employment \u2013 CES6500000001<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Retrieve<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>save<\/b>&nbsp;a Microsoft\u00ae&nbsp;Excel\u00ae&nbsp;file and the graphs to your desktop for analysis. You will have to check the \u201cinclude graph\u201d box along the top of the page to see the graph, and you will need to copy and paste the graph separately into your Microsoft\u00ae&nbsp;Excel\u00ae&nbsp;document.<\/p>\n<p>Tutorial help on Excel\u00ae and PowerPoint\u00ae functions can be found on the Microsoft\u00ae office website. There are also additional tutorials via the web that offer support for office products.<\/p>\n<p><b>Consider<\/b>&nbsp;the following two articles, located in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/phoenix.libguides.com\/ECO365r10\/w4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Week 4 Electronic Reserve Readings<\/a>, discussing actor salaries and hedge fund executives\u2019 average salaries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cRobert Downey Junior is Hollywood\u2019s Highest-Paid Actor\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn Tough Year, Hedge Fund Leaders Still Paid Well: Average Salary of $467M Was Half 2013, Report Says\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Online Classes<\/b>: Prepare and present a 5- to 8-slide Microsoft\u00ae PowerPoint\u00ae presentation-analysis.<\/p>\n<p><b>Campus Classes<\/b>: Prepare a 5- to 8-slide Microsoft\u00ae PowerPoint\u00ae presentation based on your analysis to share in class.<\/p>\n<p><b>Include&nbsp;<\/b>the following content in the presentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are trends in the labor market for the chosen labor group that you can identify for the last 10 years? Please provide the retrieved statistics.<\/li>\n<li>What factors affected the demand and supply for this labor group during the last 10 years? Research and report data available from Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and other peer reviewed sources.<\/li>\n<li>Why do actors and actresses earn so much compared to the chosen labor group?<\/li>\n<li>Why do hedge fund executives earn so much compared to the chosen labor group?<\/li>\n<li>In addition to wages what other factors influence an individual to choose one job over another?<\/li>\n<li>What jobs do you think have the best mix of salary and other characteristics that individuals care about?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Cite<\/b>&nbsp;a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources, not including the textbook and required economic data.<\/p>\n<p><b>Format<\/b>&nbsp;consistent with APA guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><b>Click<\/b>&nbsp;the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment is so students may look at the microeconomic data and other sources for better understanding of trends and determinants of the labor market. We will look at the microeconomic data and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/why-are-some-occupations-paid-more-than-others-week-4-eco-365\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}