Chapter 8: Q 22 (page 214)
What term describes the remaining level of
unemployment that occurs even when the economy is healthy?
Short Answer
Nature level of employment is the term.
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Chapter 8: Q 22 (page 214)
What term describes the remaining level of
unemployment that occurs even when the economy is healthy?
Nature level of employment is the term.
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Assess whether the following would be counted as 鈥渦nemployed鈥 in the Current Employment Statistics survey.
a. A husband willingly stays home with children while his wife works.
b. A manufacturing worker whose factory just closed down.
c. A college student doing an unpaid summer internship.
d. A retiree.
e. Someone who has been out of work for two years but keeps looking for a job.
f. Someone who has been out of work for two months but isn鈥檛 looking for a job.
g. Someone who hates her present job and is actively looking for another one.
h. Someone who decides to take a part time job because she could not find a full time position.
The U.S. unemployment rate increased from 4.6%
in July 2001 to 5.9% by June 2002. Without studying the subject in any detail, would you expect that a change of this kind is more likely to be due to cyclical unemployment or a change in the natural rate of unemployment? Why?
Do you think it is rational for workers to prefer sticky wages to wage cuts, when the consequence of sticky wages is unemployment for some workers? Why or why not? How do the reasons for sticky wages explained in this section apply to your argument?
What is structural unemployment? Give examples of structural unemployment.
Many college students graduate from college before they have found a job. When graduates begin to look for a
job, they are counted as what category of unemployed?
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