Who's in and out of the labour force?

As economists, the labour force is an important deal.

I grew sick of teaching it from scratch each year and instead filmed a lesson of me going through who’s in and who’s out (see below). It’s a bit messy but I think it works just fine. As a bonus, you’ll get a sneak peak into my eco classroom.

If you were going to use this, maybe as some pre-learning, I think it’d be valuable to get students to construct a very simple table with two columns:

• Column one: Who’s in (and why)

• Column two: Who’s out (and why)

By doing this first, you could have some more interesting discussions about the concept of the labour force in class, rather than using valuable class time to set out a series of accepted facts.

If you use this, please let me know how it goes!