Consider the Following Scenario

question 370

Essay

Consider the following scenario. Initially the economy has 90 million people working, 10 million people unemployed, and 20 million people not in the labor force. Then prospects for the economy improve. Five million people who previously were not in the labor force now join the 10 million previously unemployed in looking for work. For now, the economy remains with 90 million workers. What happens to the unemployment rate?

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Definitions:

Critical Values

Specific points on the scale of a test statistic that delineate the boundary between rejecting and not rejecting the null hypothesis.

Independent Large Samples

This refers to samples that are drawn from populations in such a way that the selection of a unit in one sample does not influence the selection of units in other samples, and each sample contains a sufficiently large number of observations.

Population Standard Deviations

The square root of the population variance, indicating how data is dispersed around the mean.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test that is used to make a decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of the null hypothesis.