What is frictional unemployment?

What will be an ideal response?


Frictional unemployment is unemployment that occurs naturally during the normal workings of the economy, such as workers taking time to to search for suitable jobs and companies taking time to search for qualified employees.

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Refer to Table 11.1. What is the value of the marginal propensity to consume?

A) 0.15 B) 0.6 C) 0.75 D) 0.9

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Usury laws tend to hurt whom?

a. suppliers of loans b. consumers who cannot get credit c. bank stockholders d. All of the above are correct.

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When an entrepreneur invests his own financial capital in order to start a business

A) the opportunity cost of capital should be included in the economic cost of doing business. B) the investment is treated as a fixed cost, so it should not be considered as a cost of doing business. C) the firm's economic profits will exceed its accounting profits. D) the accounting costs increase because the funds would otherwise have to be borrowed.

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Refer to the figure below.________ inflation will eventually move the economy pictured in the diagram from short-run equilibrium at point ________ to long-run equilibrium at point ________. 

A. Rising; A B. Falling; A; C C. Falling; B: C D. Rising; A; C

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