Chapter 8: Q.7 (page 213)
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?
Short Answer
They are counted as frictionally unemployed.
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Chapter 8: Q.7 (page 213)
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?
They are counted as frictionally unemployed.
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What term describes the remaining level of
unemployment that occurs even when the economy is healthy?
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?
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?
Beginning in the 1970s and continuing for three decades, women entered the U.S. labor force in a big way. If we assume that wages are sticky in a downward direction, but that around 1970 the demand for labor equaled the supply of labor at the current wage rate, what do you imagine happened to the wage rate, employment, and unemployment as a result of increased labor force participation?
Over the long term, has the U.S. unemployment rate generally trended up, trended down, or remained at basically the same level?
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