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The government of a small country conducts a phone survey of randomly selected households and obtains the following information from citizens: S. Potter is a career soldier in the US Army. B. Ash lives in Arizona where there are no jobs for deep-sea divers. He does not have a job but looks for one every day. He is trained as a deep-sea diver. S. Beech says “I don’t have a job, but I looked for one last week.” She is lying, she’s never really looked for a job, but the government doesn’t know this. C. Chestnut voluntarily quit her job as a waitress last week, and is actively looking for a better job as a nuclear physicist, a job she has been trained for. (looked for a job yesterday). D. Fir lost his job as a tree surgeon two weeks ago when a recession caused the company where he worked to close. He is actively looking for work. (looked for a job last week). E. Ebony is 50 years old, has never had a job and has never looked for one. Mr. Loon is crazy. He is institutionalized at a state mental hospital where he has a job teaching bird calls to other inmates. Dr. Doolittle, a medical doctor, is working as a manager at Taco Bell 1 hour a week. M. Rooney is 5 years old. He works as an actor and makes $1 million a year. J. Seward lives in Alaska. He has not looked for a job for the past 6 months. B. Gates voluntarily quit his job as CEO last week in order to look for a new job that would better use his skills as a talk-show host. He doesn’t have a job, but is actively looking for one. M. Wallace is 93 years old. He works as an anchor-man for a TV network. He also works nights delivering pizza for Dominos pizza. Finally, he works once a week at the CBS Bar and Grill as a bartender. J. Cleaver works 100 hours a week taking care of Wally and the Beav. She receives $50/week in pay. Given the above information, calculate: The number of unemployed people is The number of employed people is The labor force = The unemployment rate is %. and are frictionally unemployed is cyclically unemployed. is structurally unemployed. The government of a small country conducts a phone survey of randomly selected households and obtains the following information from citizens: S. Potter is a career soldier in the US Army. B. Ash lives in Arizona where there are no jobs for deep-sea divers. He does not have a job but looks for one every day. He is trained as a deep-sea diver. S. Beech says “I don’t have a job, but I looked for one last week.” She is lying, she’s never really looked for a job, but the government doesn’t know this. C. Chestnut voluntarily quit her job as a waitress last week, and is actively looking for a better job as a nuclear physicist, a job she has been trained for. (looked for a job yesterday). D. Fir lost his job as a tree surgeon two weeks ago when a recession caused the company where he worked to close. He is actively looking for work. (looked for a job last week). E. Ebony is 50 years old, has never had a job and has never looked for one. Mr. Loon is crazy. He is institutionalized at a state mental hospital where he has a job teaching bird calls to other inmates. Dr. Doolittle, a medical doctor, is working as a manager at Taco Bell 1 hour a week. M. Rooney is 5 years old. He works as an actor and makes $1 million a year. J. Seward lives in Alaska. He has not looked for a job for the past 6 months. B. Gates voluntarily quit his job as CEO last week in order to look for a new job that would better use his skills as a talk-show host. He doesn’t have a job, but is actively looking for one. M. Wallace is 93 years old. He works as an anchor-man for a TV network. He also works nights delivering pizza for Dominos pizza. Finally, he works once a week at the CBS Bar and Grill as a bartender. J. Cleaver works 100 hours a week taking care of Wally and the Beav. She receives $50/week in pay. Given the above information, calculate: The number of unemployed people is The number of employed people is The labor force = The unemployment rate is %. and are frictionally unemployed is cyclically unemployed. is structurally unemployed. The government of a small country conducts a phone survey of randomly selected households and obtains the following information from citizens: S. Potter is a career soldier in the US Army. B. Ash lives in Arizona where there are no jobs for deep-sea divers. He does not have a job but looks for one every day. He is trained as a deep-sea diver. S. Beech says “I don’t have a job, but I looked for one last week.” She is lying, she’s never really looked for a job, but the government doesn’t know this. C. Chestnut voluntarily quit her job as a waitress last week, and is actively looking for a better job as a nuclear physicist, a job she has been trained for. (looked for a job yesterday). D. Fir lost his job as a tree surgeon two weeks ago when a recession caused the company where he worked to close. He is actively looking for work. (looked for a job last week). E. Ebony is 50 years old, has never had a job and has never looked for one. Mr. Loon is crazy. He is institutionalized at a state mental hospital where he has a job teaching bird calls to other inmates. Dr. Doolittle, a medical doctor, is working as a manager at Taco Bell 1 hour a week. M. Rooney is 5 years old. He works as an actor and makes $1 million a year. J. Seward lives in Alaska. He has not looked for a job for the past 6 months. B. Gates voluntarily quit his job as CEO last week in order to look for a new job that would better use his skills as a talk-show host. He doesn’t have a job, but is actively looking for one. M. Wallace is 93 years old. He works as an anchor-man for a TV network. He also works nights delivering pizza for Dominos pizza. Finally, he works once a week at the CBS Bar and Grill as a bartender. J. Cleaver works 100 hours a week taking care of Wally and the Beav. She receives $50/week in pay. Given the above information, calculate: The number of unemployed people is The number of employed people is The labor force = The unemployment rate is %. and are frictionally unemployed is cyclically unemployed. is structurally unemployed.

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Solution: Total no. of people = 13 namely:

S. Potter, B. Ash, S. Beech, C. Chestnut, D. Fir, E. Ebony, Mr. Loon, Dr. Doolittle, M. Rooney, J. Seward, B. Gates, M. Wallace, J. Cleaver.

Among these who all are employed (those working): S. Potter, Dr. Doolittle, M. Wallace, J. Cleaver. Thus, number of employed people = 4 (M. Wallace has crossed the retirement age but hasn't stopped working, so won't be considered as a retiree, and thus is included in employed people)

Unemployed people (not working, but looking for the job actively): B. Ash, C.Chestnut, D. Fir, B. Gates. Thus, number of unemployed people = 4

Reasons for those who haven't been considered as employed/unemployed:

a) Those not looking/never looked for the job actively: S. Beech, E. Ebony, J. Seward

b) Not able: Mr. Loon is crazy, his work isn't part of employment

c) Too young (below 15 or 16 years of age (may vary as per different nations)) : M. Rooney

Labour Force = No. of employed people + No. of unemployed people

= 4 + 4 = 8

Unemployment rate = (no. of unemployed/Labour Force)*100

= (4/8)*100 = 50%

Frictionally unemployed (People changing jobs, or being laid off due to variety of reasons): C. Chestnut, B. Gates = 2 people

Cyclically unemployed (unemployment due to economic downturns such as recession): D. Fir

Structurally unemployed (unemployment caused due to jobs availability not matching prson's skills): B. Ash

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