With regional specialization, a nation is bound to suffer some mismatch unemployment. For example, in the early 1990s the highest regional unemployment rate was in

A) California.
B) the South.
C) the Midwest.
D) none of the above because the unemployment rate as essentially equal in all regions.


A

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