Given the below information you are to find the labor force participation rate and the unemployment rate. You must show all work and take all steps to receive credit. Your work must be done in a neat well organized easy to follow manner.   Population                              700,000 Under 16                                   70,000 Incarcerated                              70,000 Retired                                        37,000 Working Part Time Looking For Full Time               77,000 Homemakers                              30,000 Lost Job                                        77,000   17,000 of them have given up looking

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Given the below information you are to find the labor force participation rate and the unemployment rate. You must show all work and take all steps to receive credit. Your work must be done in a neat well organized easy to follow manner.

 

Population                              700,000

Under 16                                   70,000

Incarcerated                              70,000

Retired                                        37,000

Working Part Time

Looking For Full Time               77,000

Homemakers                              30,000

Lost Job                                        77,000   17,000 of them have given up looking

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Labour force is defined as that share of the population which is actively searching for work. It is the summation of the number of unemployed individuals and the number of employed individuals. The term “unemployment rate” is defined as that fraction of labour force which is not employed or unemployed.

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