a. What is the real wage, as determined by the price-setting equation? b. What is the natural rate of unemployment? c. Suppose that the markup of prices over costs increases to 10%. What happens to the natural rate of unemployment? Explain the logic behind your answer.

What is demand-deficient unemployment? a) Unemployment due to asymmetric information on the side of the employees. b) Unemployment due to skill mismatch between supply and demand of labour. c) Unemployment due to asymmetric information on the side of the employers. d) Unemployment due to insufficient demand in the economy to maintain full employment.

Answer both parts. (a) For any given job, how do the economy-wide labour market conditions affect a worker's bargaining power? Explain which labour market variable you would look at to assess labour market conditions. (b) Suppose that for given labour market conditions, worker bargaining power throughout the economy increases. Discuss, using diagrams, what effect this would have on the real wage and levels of unemployment and output in the short run and in the medium run.

The winter and cold weather can affect unemployment? True or False

Firms in the country of Merka, which experiences varying levels of unemployment over time, face a very competitive labor market. Classify the given events according to how each would affect Merka's unemployment rate. Increase in the unemployment rate Decrease in the unemployment rate Answer Bank decreased unemployment benefits increase in the minimum wage introduction of employment-at-will doctrine increase in unions' influence

In which of the following cases will we observe unemployment? the quantity of labor demanded is greater than the quantity of labor supplied at the going wage rate. the wage is below the level that balances supply and demand for labor. there is a shortage of workers. the quantity of labor demanded is less than the quantity of labor supplied at the going wage rate.

From the Hysteresis theory, a long period of high unemployment, can increase the natural rate of unemployment. Which of the 3 types of unemployment that are part of the natural rate of unemployment you think is affected the most by long periods of high unemployment? What are some solutions you would propose to solve the problems caused by the Hysteresis theory?

a) What is the relationship of frictional, structural, seasonal and cyclical unemployment to the full-employment rate of unemployment (alternatively known as the natural rate of unemployment)? Discuss.

In June 2020, the California unemployment rate reached 14.9% and in August it dropped to 11.4% which drove many economists to express skepticism and said the drop was misleading. Explain the possibility of the method used to calculate unemployment leading to a decrease in the unemployment rate in the last few months. Provide an example of the people who aren't included in the labor force potentially causing the rate to decrease.

If the wage is above the equilibrium wage because of a binding minimum wage, the result cyclical unemployment O structural unemployment O seasonal unemployment O frictional unemployment