Duplicate of Unemployment Quiz

You are looking for your first job after graduating from school.

• Frictional Unemployment

• Cyclical Unemployement

• Structural Unemployment

• Not enough Information

Are they in the labor force: retired people

• Yes

• No

• It depends

• Yes and become unemployed

Are they in the labor force: student

• Yes

• No

• No if they are not looking for a job

• they are currently unemployed

An investment banker in New York quits his job to look for a new job in LA.

• Frictional Unemployment

• Cyclical Unemployement

• Structural Unemployment

• Not enough Information

A recently retired teacher has decided to look for another job.

• Frictional Unemployment

• Cyclical Unemployement

• Structural Unemployment

• Not enough Information

Slumping sales cause several sales clerks at Macy's department store to lose their jobs.

• Frictional Unemployment

• Cyclical Unemployement

• Structural Unemployment

• Not enough Information

In the labor force: part-time employees

• Yes

• No

• Not enough info

In the labor force: discouraged workers

• Yes

• No

• Not enough info

An engineer is laid off because of a recession.

• Frictional Unemployment

• Cyclical Unemployement

• Structural Unemployment

• Not enough Information

The unemployment rate measures the percentage of

• people in the labor force who do not have jobs

• people who don't have jobs and given up looking for work

• people in the adult population who do not have jobs

• people in the adult population who have tem