Types of Unemployment

Which of the following is NOT a form of unemployment?

• structural unemployment

• frictional unemployment

• underemployment

• long-term unemployment

Which of the following best defines unemployment?

• The state of being able to work and actively seeking work, but unable to find employment

• The percentage of the labour force that is able and actively seeking work, but cannot find employment

• The state of being able to work, but choosing not to

• The total number of people who do not work

A woman who lost her job due to a decrease in sales during a recession in the economy is...

• seasonally unemployed

• technologically unemployed

• cyclically unemployed

• structurally unemployed

Farm helpers are unemployed when the cropping season is over.

• frictional

• cyclical

• structural

A student who just graduated from college and is waiting to start their new job is...

• cyclically unemployed

• frictionally unemployed

• structurally unemployed

• technologically unemployed

• seasonally unemployed

Seasonal unemployment

Cyclical unemployment

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

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of an unemployed person?

• He/she does not work

• He/she is laid off from a job in the succeeding months

• He/she has made specific efforts to find a job

• He/she is undergoing a career change

Unemployment due to people who lose their jobs due to recession are said to be cyclical unemployed.

• True

• False