Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter Economics Paper

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter movie (Economics of Race and Gender)

 

– watch movie

– mention at least 5 scenes and their economic relevance

– women entering the labor market, WWII boom

– racism in the workplace, wage discrimination, etc.

– 2 page summary

 

Keys words to use:

 

– Scarcity.

– Opportunity cost.

– Rationality.

– Supply and demand for labor.

– Household.

– Demand curve diminishing marginal productivity.

– Labor force participation.

– income effect.

– Gender pay ration.

– Participation.

– Commodities.

– Comparative advantage.

– Absolute advantage.

– Economies of scale.

– GDP.

– Market cost approach.

– Great recession.

– Labor force participation rate.

– Discouraged workers.

– Unemployment.

– Labor force.

 

Three different papers discussing the same movie 

Double spaced