Frictional Unemployment Increases When

question 68

Multiple Choice

Frictional unemployment increases when

• A) real GDP decreases and the unemployment rate rises.
• B) discouraged workers drop out of the work force.
• C) the number of workers who quit one job to find another increases.
• D) workers are replaced by machines and the unemployed workers do not have the skills to perform new jobs.

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Definitions:

Sympatric Speciation

Origin of new species in populations that overlap geographically.

Reproductive Isolation

A set of mechanisms that prevent different species from mating or ensure that any offspring produced are sterile.

Geographic Isolation

A mechanism of evolutionary separation where populations of a species are physically separated by geographic barriers leading to species divergence.

Natural Selection

The process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, a key mechanism of evolution.