Consider the MPL is currently given by MPL=30/L. The supply of labor in the country is L=10. Consider that the current regulation requires a minimum real wage of 4. 1. What is the unemployment level ? What would be the unemployment level without the minimum wage? Is this a frictional or a structural unemployment?   2. Explain what frictional and structural unemployment are. Give some example and explain.

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