| | Hi all, I hope you had a good St. Patrick's Day! I just got back from the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas...and wish that it was still spring break! :) Nonetheless, I have a number of interesting articles for you this week. Cheers, Jodi Join the Facebook Page Follow Me on Twitter | | More Fun With the Minimum Wage, Teenager Edition... One consideration when discussing minimum-wage legislation is how many of the likely jobs lost due to an increase in the minimum wage are those that would have gone to teenagers (i.e. high-school and college students) and young adults. Read More | More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About The Jobs Report... The February jobs report was released earlier this month- at a high level, it looked pretty good, with 236,000 nonfarm jobs added and unemployment falling to 7.7 percent. Read More | Fun with Price Discrimination, Airline Edition... First-degree price discrimination is the practice of charging different prices to different customers based on information that the seller has about the customer's willingness to pay (i.e. the customer's reservation price) for the good. Read More | When Economics Papers Get Animated, Inequality Edition... We all know that it can sometimes (always?) be tedious to read economics papers in their original academic form. Read More | | | | Related Searches | | | | Featured Articles | | | | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Economics newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2012 About.com | | | | Must Reads | | | Follow me on: | | | | Advertisement | |
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