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Chapter 27, Problem 4DQ
To determine
The variation of unemployment between races and ethnicity, gender, occupation and education.
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Suppose that the actual unemployment rate in a country is 7.7
percent. If the country's frictional unemployment rate is 3.5
percent and its structural unemployment rate is 1.1 percent, what
is its cyclical unemployment rate?
O 11.7 percent
O 3.1 percent
O 5.3 percent
O 4.1 percent
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If there are 3 million discouraged workers, 2.4 million marginally attached workers, the labor force is currently 102.5 million, and the unemployment rate is 5.2%, how
many people are unemployed in this country?
O 5.2 million
O 5.33 million
O 8.33 million
O 10.73 million
Using the figures in the Employment Summary Table on the previous page, assume that there is
no structural unemployment, and that there are 5,000,000 who are frictionally unemployed.
How many people are cyclically unemployed in 1998?
500,000
○ 3,500,000
O 4,000,000
8,500,000
9,000,000
Exhibit 2 - Employment Summary Table
1998
1999
POPULATION
267,500,000
272,000,000
POTENTIAL LABOR FORCE
205,000,000 210,000,000
LABOR FORCE
EMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYED
150,000,000 154,500,000
141,500,000 145,500,000
8,500,000
9,000,000
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