Chapter 21: Q 17. (page 524)
Are U.S. unemployment rates typically higher, lower, or about the same as unemployment rates in other high-income countries?
Short Answer
This depends on the country to which the US is compared.
Chapter 21: Q 17. (page 524)
Are U.S. unemployment rates typically higher, lower, or about the same as unemployment rates in other high-income countries?
This depends on the country to which the US is compared.
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Get started for freeWhose unemployment rates are commonly higher in the U.S. economy:
a. Whites or nonwhites?
b. The young or the middle-aged?
c. College graduates or high school graduates?
Is a decrease in the unemployment rate necessarily a good thing for a nation? Explain.
Are all adults who do not hold jobs counted as unemployed?
Is the increase in labor force participation rates among women better thought of as causing an increase in cyclical unemployment or an increase in the natural rate of unemployment? Why?
Assess whether the following would be counted as “unemployed” 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’t 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.
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