Chapter 8: Q 31 (page 215)
Is a decrease in the unemployment rate necessarily a good thing for a nation? Explain.
Unemployment rate depicts percentage of individuals unemployed in total labor force.
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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?
Suppose the adult population over the age of 16 is 237.8 million and the labor force is 153.9 million (of whom 139.1 million are employed). How many people are “not in the labor force?” What are the proportions of employed, unemployed and not in the labor force in the population? Hint: Proportions are percentages
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.
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?
When would you expect cyclical unemployment to be rising? Falling?
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