Problems with Interpreting the Unemployment Rate as a Measure of Labour

question 54

Multiple Choice

Problems with interpreting the unemployment rate as a measure of labour market tightness include

• A)discouraged workers and variations in how intensively the unemployed search for work.
• B)the rental vacancy rate.
• C)biases in the CPI and dissatisfied workers.
• D)variations in how intensively the unemployed search for work and biases in the CPI.
• E)dissatisfied workers and discouraged workers.

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