Variation in unemployment caused by movement between expansion and recession is called:
AStructural unemployment
BSeasonal unemployment
CCyclical unemployment
DFrictional unemployment
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Cyclical unemployment
1. One kind of unemployment tracks the business cycle.
2. The economy moves from expansion to recession and back.
3. That movement is the business cycle.
4. Economists call the variation in unemployment it causes cyclical unemployment.
_Source: OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics for AP Courses 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 7 'Unemployment'_
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