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Which correctly describes a A country's labor force consists of those employed and unemployed.
country's labor force?
Which of the following would be Janice, who graduated from the university in May, is waiting for
considered unemployed? her new job to start in July.
Which of the following is part of a person who was laid off and is now looking for work
the labor force?
What is the term for workers discouraged workers
who have given up looking
for a job but would still
like one?
Frictional unemployment is caused incomplete information.
by:
When it occurs at the industry structural unemployment.
level, Joseph Schumpeter's
"creative destruction" results in:
Minimum wage laws and unions raise wages and raise unemployment.
tend to:
The Keynesian explanation for that wage demands are too high relative to changing prices.
cyclical unemployment is:
Which of the following is the Peter, a highly skilled construction worker, lost his job when the
best example of cyclical recession began. He is looking for work, but demand in the
unemployment? construction industry is still low.
As the baby boomers retire, the decrease
U.S. labor force participation
rate will:
, In a strong, growing economy, The average trend is that there is an increase in the number of
what happens to the number of jobs but some types of jobs cease to exist while other, new
jobs and types of jobs? types of jobs replace them.
The labor force consists of: employed workers and adults who do not have jobs but who are looking
for work.
An unemployed person is one does not have a job but is actively looking for one.
who:
The presence of discouraged understated.
workers causes the measured
unemployment rate to be:
What is one of the causes of scarcity of information
frictional unemployment?
Structural unemployment is: caused by long-lasting shocks or changes in permanent features of an
economy.
If employers can fire an it will be easier for job seekers to find employment.
employee for any reason, other
things being equal:
Unemployment correlated cyclical unemployment.
with the business cycle is
called:
Which of the following is a case Garrett lost his job after the company closed during last year's recession.
of cyclical unemployment?
The invention of birth control increased female
in pill form substantially
labor force participation.
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occurs when the amount of money Inflation
in an economy increases more
rapidly than
output.
Which measure of the average consumer price index
price level most closely
corresponds to a student's daily
economic activities?
The consumer price index a basket of goods bought by a typical American consumer.
measures the prices of:
A real price is: a price that has been corrected for inflation.