What is seasonal unemployment? Give an example of unemployment that recur during certain times on the calendar. year
What will be an ideal response?
Seasonal unemployment is unemployment that recurs due to calendar effects. For example, farmers usually harvest their crops in September and October; as they require more help in farming, the unemployment rate usually drops. However, the unemployment rate usually increases in November once the harvest is done.
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In the above, which figure(s) show(s) relationship between the variables that is always positive?
A) Figure A only B) Figures C and D C) Figures A and C D) Figures A, C, and D E) Figures A and B
Rufus runs a skunk-skinning service in West Virginia. He employs skinners at a wage rate of $240 a week for each one. He leases the shack where his workers work for $200 per week. The rent is fixed for the next two years
Last week his 10 employees managed to skin a total of 300 skunks. a. What is the average product of labor for Rufus's company? b. What is Rufus's total variable cost per week? c. What is the average variable cost for Rufus's company? d. If Rufus adds his brother Jethro to his staff, at a wage rate of $240 a week, and his company can now skin 310 skunks per week, what is Rufus's new average variable cost?
Suppose that expected profit decreases. This change means
A) the demand curve for loanable funds shifts leftward and the real interest rate falls. B) the supply curve for loanable funds shifts rightward and the nominal interest rate rises. C) there is a movement down along the demand curve for loanable funds. D) the real interest rate rises as saving increases.
Refer to Figure 10.9. Other things equal, an increase in the nominal money supply by the Fed is best represented as a change in equilibrium from
A) point A to point B. B) point A to point D. C) point C to point B. D) point C to point D.