DP1 unemployment

unemployment is defined as

• people without work

• people without work

  available for work

• people without work

  available for work

  actively seeking unemployment

• people of working age

  without work

  available for work

  actively seeking unemployment

You stay at home with two small children and do not seek paid employment

• employed

• unemployed

• neither

You are not working but recently interviewed and received an offer for a job that starts in two weeks.

• employed

• unemployed

• neither

You are a college student who goes to school full time and does not want a job.

• employed

• unemployed

• neither

You teach 20 hours a week at the local high school. You want more teaching hours but district budgets are tight and full-time positions are not available

• employed

• unemployed

• neither

A labor force of 20 million people has 18.5 million people employed. Find the unemployment rate.

• 10%

• 8.5%

• 7.5%

• 6%

unemployment data may be based on

• the people who are registered as unemployed

• people who are claiming unemployment benefits

• both

• none

People who have been unemployed for a long time and have given up the search for work belong to

• official unemployment

• hidden unemployment

• neither

• both

If operators are fired and replaced with computer technology, the operators would be considered

• frictionally unemployed

• structurally unemployed

• cyclically unemployed

• seasonally unemployed

demand-side policies appear effective in addressing

• frictional unemployment

• structural unemployment

• cyclical unemployment

• seasonal unemployment