If the Number of Discouraged Searchers Increases, Everything Else Remaining

question 9

Multiple Choice

If the number of discouraged searchers increases, everything else remaining the same, then the

• A)unemployment rate will increase.
• B)employment-to-population ratio will decrease.
• C)labour force participation rate will increase.
• D)labour force participation rate will decrease.
• E)employment-to-population ratio will increase.

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Definitions:

Liberty

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

State

An organized political community living under a government; can also refer to the condition or mode of being.

Individual

A single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.

Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an 18th-century philosopher who focused on the importance of nature, the critique of modernity, and the concept of the social contract influencing political theory.