a) If a country's natural unemployment rate is 5.5 percent and its actual unemployment rate is 3.5 percent, what is its cyclical unemployment rate?   ___________percent

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a) If a country's natural unemployment rate is 5.5 percent and its actual unemployment rate is 3.5 percent, what is its cyclical unemployment rate?   ___________percent

 

Instructions: Enter the value for the output gap as an absolute number.

 

b) According to Okun's law, this country would have   (Click to select)   a recessionary   an expansionary  output gap of _________percent.

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