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8.1 How the unemployment rate is defined and computed

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4 / 23  Assess whether the following would be counted as “unemployed” in the Current Employment Statistics survey.
A  A husband willingly stays home with children while his wife works.
B  A manufacturing worker whose factory just closed down.
C  A college student doing an unpaid summer internship.
D  A retiree.
E  Someone who has been out of work for two years but keeps looking for a job.
F  Someone who has been out of work for two months but isn’t looking for a job.
G  Someone who hates her present job and is actively looking for another one.
H  Someone who decides to take a part time job because she could not find a full time position.

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Ayele, K., 2003. Introductory Economics, 3rd ed., Addis Ababa.
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the study of how humans make choices under conditions of scarcity
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this is the study of how the society manages it's scarce resources
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macroeconomic is the branch of economics which studies actions, scale, activities and behaviour of the aggregate economy as a whole.
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Suppose the demand function that a firm faces shifted from Qd  120 3P to Qd  90  3P and the supply function has shifted from QS  20  2P to QS 10  2P . a) Find the effect of this change on price and quantity. b) Which of the changes in demand and supply is higher?
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economics is a science that studies human behaviour as a relationship b/w ends and scares means which have alternative uses
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out-of-pocket costs for a firm, for example, payments for wages and salaries, rent, or materials
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Source:  OpenStax, Macroeconomics. OpenStax CNX. Jun 16, 2014 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11626/1.10
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