1. Suppose you are given the following data for a small economy: Number of unemployed workers: 1,000,000. Labor force: 10,000,000. Based on this data, answer the following: What is the unemployment rate? Can you determine whether the economy is operating at its full employment level? Now suppose people who had been seeking jobs become discouraged, and give up their job searches. The labor force shrinks to 900,500 workers, and unemployment falls to 500,000 workers. What is the unemployment rate now? Has the economy improved?
1. Suppose you are given the following data for a small economy:
- Number of unemployed workers: 1,000,000.
- Labor force: 10,000,000.
Based on this data, answer the following:
- What is the
unemployment rate? - Can you determine whether the economy is operating at its full employment level?
- Now suppose people who had been seeking jobs become discouraged, and give up their job searches. The labor force shrinks to 900,500 workers, and unemployment falls to 500,000 workers. What is the unemployment rate now? Has the economy improved?
2. Nominal GDP for an economy is $10 trillion. Real GDP is $9 trillion. What is the value of the implicit price deflator?
3. Suppose you compare your income this year and last year and find that your nominal income fell but your real income rose. How could this have happened?
4. Suppose that people expect inflation to equal 3 percent, but in fact prices rise by 5 percent. Indicate whether this unexpected higher rate of inflation would help or hurt each of the following groups.
- a homeowner with a fixed-rate mortgage.
- a union worker with a fixed labor contract
- a company that has invested some of its endowment in government bond which pay fixed
rate of return .
5. Indicate how each of the following events would affect the aggregate demand AD curve:
- a short-run decrease in the price level
- an increase in consumer confidence on the price level and real GDP
- an increase in government purchases
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