When You Include Discouraged Workers and Unemployed Workers in Calculations

question 130

Multiple Choice

When you include discouraged workers and unemployed workers in calculations of the unemployment rate

• A) the difference between this alternate measure and the official unemployment rate increases significantly during recessions.
• B) the difference between this alternate measure and the official unemployment rate increases significantly during economic expansions.
• C) this alternate measure is much lower than the official unemployment rate.
• D) this alternate measure is the same as the official unemployment rate.
• E) this alternate measure is not useful in studying the macroeconomy.

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Definitions:

Conservation

In cognitive psychology, the concept that children learn that quantity, length, or number remain the same despite changes in appearance or form.

Object Permanence

The understanding in human development that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

Egocentric

A term referring to the inability or difficulty in understanding a perspective other than one's own.

Formal-Operations

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, typically beginning around age 12, where individuals start to use abstract and logical thinking.