Unemployment Quiz

Match the following type of unemployment.

• Structural

• Occurs when there is a surplus of laborers in a particular job market because the wage rate is too high.

• Seasonal

• Refers to workers who have short-term jobs based on the season.

• Cyclical

• When people are fired, laid off, or quit, there is an inevitable period of time in which they must look for a job.

• Frictional

• These are changes in the unemployment rate caused by fluctuations in the business cycle.

You finished college and earned a bachelor’s degree in public administration. You have applied for several jobs and are waiting to hear back.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

You work for a company that supplies the automobile industry. Car sales are down and production has slowed. You have been laid off until things pick up.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

You completed your medical degree and you’re looking to open your own medical clinic

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

Addison leaves her job to become a stay at home mom.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

You are an expert at repairing CD players.  The electronics repair shop no longer needs your services.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

You lost your accounting job in February.  You have been looking for a new job with no luck so in the meantime you’ve gotten a job to uber people around town.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

The US experiences a massive recession and millions of Americans are laid off including you.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force

Uber and Lyft have taken over the airport, what type of unemployment does this cause for taxi drivers?

• Frictional

• Structural

• Seasonal

• Cyclical

You lost your accounting job at a large corporation and now work part-time washing cars at a local car wash.

• Frictional

• Cyclical

• Structural

• Underemployed

• Not in Labor Force