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Chapter 21, Problem 45P
A country with a population of eight million adults has five million employed,
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The table shows employment statistics for a fictional country. Use the information to answer the questions. Round your percentages to two decimal places.
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5805
Unemployed
482
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591
What is the total labor force?
What is the labor force participation rate?
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What is the unemployment rate?
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Suppose 266266 of the 482482 unemployed people have been unemployed for so long that they stop looking for work.
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A country has a population of 160 million. Out of this population, the number of retired people is 23 million, the number of people below working age (under 16 years) is 39 million, and the number of people under different types of institutional care is 1.5 million. In this country, the number of the employed amount to 75 million people and the unemployed amount to 4 million people. Calculate the following and show your work
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Principles of Economics 2e
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