Types of Unemployment

Types of Unemployment

For Each Situation, put the appropriate letter!

Types of Unemployment

• F is for Frictional Unemployment

• C is for Cyclical Unemployment

• S is for Structural Unemployment

• N is for a person NOT employed

Multiple Choice

A computer programmer is laid off because of a recession

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

A literary editor leaves her job in New York to look for a new job in San Francisco

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

An unemployed college graduate is looking for his first job.

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

Advances in technology make the assembly-line worker's job obsolete

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

Slumping sales lead to a cashier being laid off.

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

An individual refuses to work for minimum wage

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

A high school graduate lacks the skills necessary for a particular job

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

Workers are laid off when the local manufacturing plan closes because the product make there isn't selling during a recession.

• F

• C

• S

• N

Multiple Choice

A skilled glass blower becomes unemployed when a new machine does her job for free.

• F

• C

• s

• N

Multiple Choice

An individual has been laid off during a recession and has been looking for work unsuccessfully for so long he has finally given up actively seeking a job. (Note: This person is known as a discouraged worker)

• F

• C

• S

• N