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Unemployment

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the unemployment????

a)

decisions to work based on each individuals' valuation of their own work

b)

proportion of younger workers in the labor force

c)

the situation of actively looking for employment but not being currently employed.

d)

person who is simultaneously an income earner,

2.

What is the formula of unemployment rate???

a)

=(labor force/unemployed)*100%

b)

=(GDP*labor force)/100%

c)

=(unemployed/labor force)*100%

d)

none of them

3.

How many general types of unemployement in economy?

a)
b)
c)
d)
4.

Which is not the type of unemployment?

a)

frictional

b)

functional

c)

cyclical

d)

structural

5.

Which type of unemployment consisting of search unemployment and wait unemployment ( for workers who are either searching for jobs or waiting to take jobs in the near future)???

a)

frictional

b)

cyclical

c)

functional

d)

structural

6.

In which type of unemployment workers find it hard to obtain new jobs without retraining, gaining additional education, or relocating??

a)

cyclical

b)

frictional

c)

structural

d)

all of them

7.

What is the natural rate of unemployment (NRU)?

a)

is defined as the percentage of unemployed workers in the total labor force

b)

is defined an economy if there were no cyclical unemployment. In other words, it's frictional unemployment plus structural unemployment.

c)

refers to an overall increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI),

d)

none of them

8.

Who is the Arthur Okun???

a)

identifyed the relationship between the unemployment rate and the inflation

b)

gave definition for cyclical unemployment

c)

got Nobel Prize in math

d)

the first who quantify the relationship between the unemployment rate and the GDP gap

9.

What Okun’s law indicate?

a)

Inflation reduces the “purchasing power” of money

b)

for each 1 percentage point of unemployment above the natural rate, economy suffers a 2 percent decline in real GDP below its potential GDP

c)

demand for labor also changes over time.

d)

none of them

10.

What is the unemploymen rate in Kazakhstan??

a)

8%

b)

4.9%

c)

3.25

d)

10.5%