Research paper topic field: Labor
Research paper topic: Minimum Wage Policies: Assessing the effectiveness and implications of different minimum wage laws on employment and income inequality.
Research question: How do variations in minimum wage policies impact employment levels and income inequality in Albania and what are the broader socio-economic implications of these findings?
While planning, writing, and revising your research paper, please make sure that:
* you engage critically with your references.
* every claim you make, explicitly or implicitly, is backed up by sufficient evidence.
* you “converse” with your sources, i.e. that you use sources in an analytical way, that you use them as “a point of departure” leading to an in-depth analysis.
* you have employed peer-reviewed academic text as secondary sources and that, in case you have used non-academic sources, you treat them as primary sources that require sufficient analysis.
Requirements for this assignment:
– references: min. 10 academic sources (peer-reviewed academic journal articles or books published in academic publishing houses)
– what you need to include: a list of keywords, definitions of keywords (encyclopedia- and discipline-based), critical engagement with sources, evidence supporting claims