Chapter 21: Q 9. (page 524)
How do you calculate the unemployment rate? How do you calculate the labor force participation rate?
Short Answer
There is a different formula for calculating both the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate.
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Chapter 21: Q 9. (page 524)
How do you calculate the unemployment rate? How do you calculate the labor force participation rate?
There is a different formula for calculating both the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate.
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If you are out of school but working part-time, are you considered employed or unemployed in U.S. labor statistics? If you are a full-time student and working 12 hours a week at the college cafeteria are you considered employed or not in the labor force? If you are a senior citizen who is collecting social security and a pension and working as a greeter at Wal-Mart are you considered employed or not in the labor force?
Are all adults who do not hold jobs counted as unemployed?
Suppose the adult population over the age of 16 is 237.8 million and the labor force is 153.9 million (of whom 139.1 million are employed). How many people are 鈥渘ot in the labor force?鈥 What are the proportions of employed, unemployed and not in the labor force in the population? Hint: Proportions are percentages.
Are U.S. unemployment rates typically higher, lower, or about the same as unemployment rates in other high-income countries?
If many workers become discouraged from looking for jobs, explain how the number of jobs could decline but the unemployment rate could fall at the same time.
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