Don Worked as a Machinist All His Life, and Was

question 104

Multiple Choice

Don worked as a machinist all his life, and was recently laid off because his plant closed and the jobs were outsourced to India. There don't seem to be any machinist jobs in the area anymore. Don would be considered:

• A) frictionally unemployed.
• B) structurally unemployed.
• C) real-wage unemployed.
• D) Don is a discouraged worker.

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

In an experiment, the group of participants that receives the treatment or intervention under investigation, as opposed to the control group.

Random Assignment

Assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between the different groups.

Test Difficulty

The measure of how challenging an examination or a set of questions is, often determined by the proportion of test-takers who answer correctly.

Experimental Group

The group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested, contrasted with a control group that does not.