Chapter 7: Q.7.5 (page 142)
Understand key features of business fluctuations.
Short Answer
Business fluctuations are increments and diminish in monetary action, as estimated by increments and diminish in real GDP.
Chapter 7: Q.7.5 (page 142)
Understand key features of business fluctuations.
Business fluctuations are increments and diminish in monetary action, as estimated by increments and diminish in real GDP.
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Get started for freeDuring the course of a year, the labour force consists of the same 1,000 people. Employers have chosen not to hire 20 of these people in the face of government regulations making it too costly to employ them. Hence, they remain unemployed throughout the year. At the same time, every month during the year, 30 different people become unemployed, and 30 other different people who were unemployed find jobs.
a. What is the frictional unemployment rate?
b. What is the unemployment rate?
c. Suppose that a system of unemployment compensation is established. Each month, 30 new people (not including the 20 that employers have chosen not to employ) continue to become unemployed, but each monthly group of newly unemployed now takes two months to find a job. After this change, what is the frictional unemployment rate?
d. After the change discussed in part (c), what is the unemployment rate?
In a country with a labour force of 200, a different group of 10 people becomes unemployed each month but becomes employed once again a month later. No others outside these groups are unemployed.
a. What is this country's unemployment rate?
b. What is the average duration of unemployment?
c. Suppose that establishment of a system of unemployment compensation increases to two months the interval that it takes each group of job losers to become employed each month. Nevertheless, a different group of 10 people still becomes unemployed each month. Now, what is the average duration of unemployment?
d. Following the change discussed in part (c), what is the country's unemployment rate?
The real interest rate is 4 percent, and the nominal interest is 6 percent. What is the anticipated rate of inflation.
Suppose that the U.S. nonmilitary, noninstitutionalized adult population is 254 million, the number employed is 156 million, and the number unemployed is 8 million.
a. What is the unemployment rate?
b. Suppose there is a difference of 60 million between the adult population and the combined total of people who are employed and unemployed. How do we classify these 60 million people? Based on these figures, what is the U.S. labour force participation rate?
A nation's frictional unemployment rate is 1 per cent. Its cyclical rate of unemployment is 3 per cent, and its structural unemployment rate is 4 per cent. What is this nation's overall rate of unemployment?
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