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UPSC IRMS Unemployment and Labour Force — practice questions

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A survey sorts adults into three groups: employed, unemployed and:Read the answer and worked solution →Someone who has not actively looked for work in the last four weeks is counted as:Read the answer and worked solution →The labour force is made up of the unemployed and the:Read the answer and worked solution →A person who gave up looking for work and so is no longer counted is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The share of adults who are in the labour force is called the labour force:Read the answer and worked solution →In the United States, unemployment is measured by a monthly survey called the:Read the answer and worked solution →Over long periods, the United States unemployment rate tends to return to a range of:Read the answer and worked solution →During the Great Depression of the 1930s, unemployment reached almost:Read the answer and worked solution →Unemployment that rises because the economy is in a recession is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The level of unemployment remaining even in a healthy economy is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Unemployment occurring while workers move between jobs is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Frictional unemployment is described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Frictional unemployment may account for how much of total unemployment?Read the answer and worked solution →How easily workers can learn about other openings affects the level of:Read the answer and worked solution →Willingness to relocate for work also changes the extent of:Read the answer and worked solution →Unemployment caused by a mismatch between worker skills and available jobs is:Read the answer and worked solution →Some people worry that which force causes structural unemployment?Read the answer and worked solution →The key to minimising structural unemployment is said to be:Read the answer and worked solution →An economy is at full employment when actual unemployment equals the:Read the answer and worked solution →At full employment, real GDP is equal to:Read the answer and worked solution →When an economy is below full employment, real GDP is:Read the answer and worked solution →The natural unemployment rate is linked to potential GDP and to:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the unemployment typesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the labour force groupsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the labour gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the labour wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Counted or not countedRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the labour ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Unemployment bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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A survey sorts adults into three groups: employed, unemployed and:

  1. Out of labour force
  2. Out of local farms
  3. Out of legal forms
  4. Out of lawful funds
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Correct answer: A. Out of labour force

1. Two of the three are named. 2. The third is neither working nor job hunting. 3. That group is out of the labour force. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics 3e, Chapter 8, Unemployment._

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Someone who has not actively looked for work in the last four weeks is counted as:

  1. Out of lawful funds
  2. Out of labour force
  3. Out of local farms
  4. Out of legal forms
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Correct answer: B. Out of labour force

1. They are not employed. 2. They are not searching either. 3. So they are out of the labour force. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics 3e, Chapter 8, Unemployment._

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The labour force is made up of the unemployed and the:

  1. Employed
  2. Emigrant
  3. Eminent
  4. Emergent
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Correct answer: A. Employed

1. One part holds jobs. 2. The other is looking for one. 3. So the employed are the other part. _Source: OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics 3e, Chapter 8, Unemployment._

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