A country has a population of 1,000,000. The labor force is 500,000. If the unemployment rate is 10%, how many people are employed?     100,000     50,000     450,000     900,000   A country has a labor participation rate of 60%. The employment rate is 90%. What is the total number of people unemployed if the total population is 20,000,000.     1,000,000     1,200,000     1,500,000     2,000,000   If there are more discouraged workers, then unemployment rate will ____ and labor participation rate will _____.     fall, rise     rise, rise     fall, fall     rise, fall

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A country has a population of 1,000,000. The labor force is 500,000. If the unemployment rate is 10%, how many people are employed?

   

100,000

   

50,000

   

450,000

   

900,000

 

A country has a labor participation rate of 60%. The employment rate is 90%. What is the total number of people unemployed if the total population is 20,000,000.

   

1,000,000

   

1,200,000

   

1,500,000

   

2,000,000

 

If there are more discouraged workers, then unemployment rate will ____ and labor participation rate will _____.

   

fall, rise

   

rise, rise

   

fall, fall

   

rise, fall

 

Ahmed has just graduated with a PhD degree in refinery product optimization. He is currently residing in the Eastern Province looking for a job in the refining industry.

   

He is structurally unemployed

   

He is frictionallly unemployed

   

He is cyclically and structurally unemployed

   

He is frictionally and structurally unemployed

 

A country has a labor force of 1,000,000 and 50,000 of discouraged workers. The unemployment rate is 10%. If the number of discouraged workers increases to 100,000, then the new unemployment rate is

   

10%

   

10.53%

   

5%

   

5.26%

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