Chapter 7: Q.7.2 (page 142)
Discuss the types of unemployment.
Short Answer
The three main types of unemployment are cyclical, structural and frictionalunemployment.
Chapter 7: Q.7.2 (page 142)
Discuss the types of unemployment.
The three main types of unemployment are cyclical, structural and frictionalunemployment.
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a. A homeowner whose wages will keep pace with inflation in 2019 but whose monthly mortgage payments to a savings bank will remain fixed
b. An apartment landlord who has guaranteed to his tenants that their monthly rent payments during 2019 will be the same as they were during 2018
c. A banker who made an auto loan that the auto buyer will repay at a fixed rate of interest during 2019
d. A retired individual who earns a pension with fixed monthly payments from her past employer during 2019
Suppose that in 2017, a typical U.S. student attending a state-supported college bought 10 textbooks at a price of 100\( per book and enrolled in 25 credit hours of coursework at a price of 360\) per credit hour. In 2018, the typical student continued to purchase 10 textbooks and enrol in 25 credit hours, but the price of a textbook rose to 110\( per book, and the tuition price increased to 400\) per credit hour. The base year for computing a "student price index" using this information is 2017. What is the value of the student price index in 2017? In 2018? Show your work.
During the course of a year, the labour force consists of the same 1,000 people. Employers have chosen not to hire 20 of these people in the face of government regulations making it too costly to employ them. Hence, they remain unemployed throughout the year. At the same time, every month during the year, 30 different people become unemployed, and 30 other different people who were unemployed find jobs.
a. What is the frictional unemployment rate?
b. What is the unemployment rate?
c. Suppose that a system of unemployment compensation is established. Each month, 30 new people (not including the 20 that employers have chosen not to employ) continue to become unemployed, but each monthly group of newly unemployed now takes two months to find a job. After this change, what is the frictional unemployment rate?
d. After the change discussed in part (c), what is the unemployment rate?
Suppose that in Figure 7-2, the number of people employed was to expand by 9.2 million, and the number of people unemployed was to rise by 7.1 million. What would be the new values of the labour force and of the unemployment rate?
Consider the following price indexes: 90 in 2017, 100 in 2018,110 in 2019, 121 in 2020, and 150 in 2021. Answer the following questions.
a. Which year is likely the base year?
b. What is the inflation rate from 2018 to 2019?
c. What is the inflation rate from 2019 to 2020?
d. If the cost of a market basket in 2018 is 2,000$, what is the cost of the same basket of goods and services in 2017? In 2021?
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