The placement of workers in jobs; benefits, and conditions of employment; need to employ workers; the cost of labour; job opportunities; to expand the operations; supply of labour; the number of people currently working or actively seeking employment; the working-age population; the hours that staff work; the effort put forth by employees; the skills possessed by the workforce; the age distribution of the population; unique features of the labour market; to constrain or limit the applicability of the theoretical framework; basic economic supply and demand theory; the amount of something supplied; the amount of something demanded; eliminated surplus; to underbid each other; to attract buyers; to deal with the lowest-priced seller; meaningful quality differences; price reduction; institutional forces; formal rules; informal practices; important impacts on labour market outcomes; labour market legislation; obvious impediment; unfettered operation of supply and demand forces; external labour market; supply and demand pressures; short-term nature of the employment relationship; in order to avoid the costs or re-hiring or training; wage reductions; long-term negative impacts; turnover of the staff; diversity in the characteristics of the service being traded; complexity of work; working environment; promotional opportunities; highly skilled technical and professional occupations; wage and employment opportunities; mobility between occupations; occupational licenses; to limit one‘s ability to work in a given occupation; skill sets and work experience; satisfactory job performance; flexibility of workers to change employers; to have significant loyalty to the chosen occupations; individual labour markets; to flow from one labour market to another; degree of similarities between occupations; job requirements; requisite skills.