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Page 1: GDP and Unemployment

GDP and Unemployment

Practice EOCT questions

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1. Gross Domestic Product is a method for calculating how much a country produces by adding which four spending categories?A Consumption, Investment, Government, Net ExportsB Consumption, Investment, Government, Business expendituresC Consumption, Interest Rates, Goverment, Net ExportsD Wages, Rent, Interest, Dividends

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2. In October, Bill is laid off from his job as a Halloween costume maker solely because of a slow Halloween season. Which statement is true?A Bill is naturally unemployed.B Bill is cyclically unemployed.C Bill is frictionally unemployed.D Bill is structurally unemployed.

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3. The town of Smithville recently closed the blacksmith factory and now all of the blacksmiths are out of work. This type of unemployment is known asA structural.B frictional.C cyclical.D nominal.

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• Which person below would be considered frictionally unemployed?

• A Jill, who quit her job to become a full time student.

• B Jake, who has recently entered the labor force.

• C Jennifer, whose skills are no longer needed.

• D Jimmy, whose parents shut down the family farm

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