Unemployment

Types of Unemployment

• Mirrors Economy

• Frictional Unemployment

• Working but still not making enough.

• Seasonal Unemployment

• Trying to find a job.

• Structural Employment

• Skills do not match available jobs

• Under Employment

• Mirrors the seasons demands

• Cyclical

  Unemployment

Which of the following is NOT a form of unemployment?

• underemployment

• long-term unemployment

• frictional unemployment

• structural unemployment

Which of the following best defines unemployment?

• The state of being able to work and actively seeking work, but unable to find employment

• The state of being able to work, but choosing not to

• The percentage of the labour force that is able and actively seeking work, but cannot find employment

• The total number of people who do not work

a woman who lost her job due to a decrease in sales during a recession in the economy is...

• frictionally unemployed

• structurally unemployed

• technologically unemployed

• cyclically unemployed

• seasonally unemployed

Farm helpers are unemployed when the cropping season is over.

• frictional

• cyclical

• structural

• seasonal

a student who just graduated from college and is waiting to start their new job is...

• frictionally unemployed

• structurally unemployed

• technologically unemployed

• cyclically unemployed

• seasonally unemployed

Seasonal unemployment

• Describes recent college graduates

• Is predictable

• Is a result of changes in technology

• Slows the economy Slows the economy

Cyclical unemployment

• Describes recent college graduates

• Lasts longer than 6 months

• Describes employees moving from one job to another

• Increases inflation Increases inflation

If operators are fired and replaced with computer technology, the operators would be considered

• frictionally unemployed

• structurally unemployed

• cyclically unemployed

• dissatisfiededly unemployed dissatisfiededly unemployed

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of an unemployed person?

• He/she does not work

• He/she has made specific efforts to find a job

• He/she is laid off from a job in the succeeding months

• He/she is undergoing a career change