Unemployment That Is Caused by a Mismatch of the Demand

question 173

Multiple Choice

Unemployment that is caused by a mismatch of the demand for workers with certain skills and the skills of unemployed workers is:

• A) frictional unemployment.
• B) structural unemployment.
• C) cyclical unemployment.
• D) mismatch unemployment.

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Definitions:

Operant Chamber

An apparatus that creates an enclosed environment, used for the study of operant behavior within it.

Matching Law

A principle of behavioral psychology that states an individual will choose to engage in behaviors proportional to the rewards offered for those behaviors.

FR 10 Schedule

A fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded only after it has been performed a specified number of times, in this case, ten times.

FR 40 Schedule

A type of fixed-ratio schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specific number of responses have been made, in this case, every 40th response.