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22 Jobs and Unemployment CLICKER QUESTIONS 2

Checkpoint 22.1 Checkpoint 22.2 Checkpoint 22.3 Question 1 Question 5

CHECKPOINT 22.1 Question 1 Bo is available and willing to work but has not actively looked for work in the past four weeks. Bo is ____ of the labor force and is ____. part; counted as being unemployed part; not counted as being unemployed not part; not counted as being unemployed not part; counted as being unemployed only if she has had a job within the last 12 months not part; counted as being unemployed regardless of whether or not she has held a job within the last 12 months Answer: C

CHECKPOINT 22.1 Question 2 If the working-age population is 200 million, 150 million are employed, and 6 million are unemployed, then the unemployment rate is ____. 3.0 percent 25.0 percent 4.0 percent 12.0 percent 3.8 percent Answer: A

CHECKPOINT 22.1 Question 3 The official measure of the unemployment rate counts marginally attached workers as ______. employed but not as part of the labor force employed and as part of the labor force unemployed and as part of the labor force not part of the labor force unemployed but not as part of the labor force Answer: E

CHECKPOINT 22.1 Question 4 Part-time workers for noneconomic reasons are people who _______. work less than 35 hours a week but would like to work more than 35 hours a week work more than 35 hours a week but would like to work fewer than 35 hours a week have lost their jobs within the last four weeks and are seeking another job do not want to work full time are discouraged workers Answer: D

CHECKPOINT 22.2 Question 5 In 2011, part-time workers for noneconomic reasons were about ____ million people, and part-time workers for economic reasons were about ____ million people. 9; 18 15; 15 1; 25 10; 10 18; 9 Answer: E

CHECKPOINT 22.2 Question 6 From 1960 to 2010, male labor force participation rate ____ and the female labor force participation rate ____. increased; increased decreased rapidly; decreased slowly and now the two labor force participation rates are now equal decreased; increased decreased; decreased did not change; increased Answer: C

CHECKPOINT 22.2 Question 7 The number of part-time workers for economic reasons ____ during a recession and the number of part-time workers for noneconomic reasons ____. increases; increases during a recession increases; decreases during a recession increases; is relatively steady does not change; is relatively steady decreases; increases Answer: C

CHECKPOINT 22.3 Question 8 Tommy graduates from college and as he searches for a job, he is _______. frictionally unemployed structurally unemployed cyclically unemployed seasonally unemployed a marginally attached worker Answer: A

CHECKPOINT 22.3 Question 9 Other things remaining the same, an increase in unemployment benefits will ____ . increase structural unemployment decrease structural unemployment increase cyclical unemployment increase frictional unemployment decrease cyclical unemployment Answer: D

CHECKPOINT 22.3 Question 10 When the economy is at full employment, the _______. natural unemployment rate is zero amount of cyclical unemployment is zero amount of structural unemployment is zero amount of unemployment is zero amount of frictional unemployment is zero Answer: B