3.3. Workers
- Syllabus
- 0455–2027–2028
- Topic
- 3.3
- Level
- —
3.3.1—Factors affecting an individual’s choice of occupation
- wage and non-wage factors
3.3.2—Wage determination
- influences of the demand for labour and the supply of labour
- trade unions and their relative bargaining power
- government policy, including national minimum wage (NMW)
- drawing and interpretation of diagrams that illustrate the effects of:
- changes in demand and supply in the labour market
- national minimum wages
3.3.3—Reasons for differences in wages
- reasons for differences:
- demand for and supply of labour
- relative bargaining strengths
- discrimination, e.g. male/female
- government policy
- how these reasons influence the wages of workers, depending on:
- level of skills of workers
- economic sector workers operate in: primary/secondary/tertiary
- discrimination between workers, e.g. male/female
- whether the worker is working in the private sector or public sector
3.3.4—Mobility of labour
- causes of changes in the occupational and geographical mobility of labour
- consequences of changes in the occupational and geographical mobility of labour
3.3.5—Division of labour
- definition of division of labour (worker specialisation)
- advantages and disadvantages of division of labour
Objective notes
5 learning objectivesConceptIGCSE Economics