Who is an unemployed worker? If the number of employed workers in a country, where the size of the labor force is 4 million, is 2.75 million, what is the number of unemployed workers in the country?

What will be an ideal response?


A worker is unemployed if he or she does not have a job, has actively looked for work in the prior four weeks, and is currently available for work.
The labor force in a country equals the sum of employed workers and unemployed workers. Hence, the number of unemployed workers in the country is (4 - 2.

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