Question

Explain the type of unemployment for each of the following: A. Unemployed auto assembly line factory worker during a recession. B. Unemployed auto assembly line factory worker who was replaced with a robot. C. An auto assembly line worker who quit her job to go back to school full-time to improve her job skills. D. A high school student who mows lawns during the summer but is out of work because it is winter. E. A high school economics teacher who is not working during the summer but plans to go back and teach in the fall.

P.s it could be only on of the frictional, structural and cyclical unemployment. Thank you

Answer 1

a) As this is time of recession it will be considered as cyclical unemployment.

b) this is structural unemployment because the skills are not relative anymore.

c) this will not be considered as unemployment because the person is out of the labor force, if we have to point one say it structural .

d) this is seasonal unemployment which is part of the structural unemployment.

e) this is again seasonal unemployment that can be part of the structural unemployment,