Chapter 8: Q 39 (page 215)
Under what condition would an increase in the unemployment rate be a positive sign?
Short Answer
Unemployment rate depicts percentage of individuals unemployed in total labor force.
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Chapter 8: Q 39 (page 215)
Under what condition would an increase in the unemployment rate be a positive sign?
Unemployment rate depicts percentage of individuals unemployed in total labor force.
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What happens to the labor force participation rate when employed individuals are reclassified as unemployed? What happens when they are reclassified as discouraged workers?
Would you expect hidden unemployment to be higher, lower, or about the same when the unemployment rate is high, say 10%, versus low, say 4%? Explain.
What are some of the problems with using the unemployment rate as an accurate measure of overall joblessness?
Over the long term, has the U.S. unemployment rate generally trended up, trended down, or remained at basically the same level?
Using the above data, what is the unemployment rate? These data are U.S. statistics from 2010. How does it compare to the February 2015 unemployment rate computed earlier?
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