Counting Discouraged Workers as Unemployed Would

question 87

Multiple Choice

Counting discouraged workers as unemployed would

• A)not change the measured unemployment rate.
• B)lower the measured unemployment rate.
• C)raise the natural unemployment rate.
• D)raise the full employment rate.
• E)raise the measured unemployment rate.

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