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1.2 Challenges and Opportunities as You Enter the Workforce

What are the current challenges and opportunities facing today’s workforce? Professor Kochan examines these questions in the following video. After you finish watching, there are attentiveness questions directly below. These questions will assess the extent to which you have mastered the content covered in the video.

Video: Current Challenges and Opportunities: Today’s Labor Market in Perspective

Attentiveness Question 1

Which of the following is true about the rates of growth in labor productivity and wages in the US since the 1980s?

Exercise 1

 Productivity grew more than wages 

 Productivity and wages grew at about the same rates 

 Productivity grew less than wages 

Explanation

Productivity grew more than wages

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Attentiveness Question 2

At about what year did hourly work compensation stop directly correlating with work productivity?

Explanation

According to the line graph shown in the video, hourly work compensation started to deviate from productivity in 1980.

Exercise 2

 1930 

 1960 

 1980 

 2008 

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