Statistics Canada Does Not Count Discouraged Workers as Unemployed

question 43

Essay

Statistics Canada does not count discouraged workers as unemployed.Suppose discouraged workers were counted as unemployed.Explain how the unemployment rate and the labour force participation rate would change.

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Definitions:

Average Wage

The mean salary or earnings of a group of workers, calculated by dividing the total wages of the group by the number of workers.

Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the time between events in a process where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

T Distribution

A probability distribution that is used in statistics to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.