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Consider an economy that initially has a labor force of 2000 workers. Of these workers, 1500 are employed. The economy enters a recession. Employment falls by 5%, and in addition, 0.4% of the labor force becomes discouraged at the prospect of finding a job and leaves the labor force.

a)Can you calculate the employment rate given the information above? Explain.

b)Calculate the unemployment rate before and after the recession.

c)What is the unemployment rate taking discouraged workers into account?

d)Using Okun's law, calculate the expected percentage change in real GDP.

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Consider an economy that initially has a labor force of2000workers. Of these workers, 1900 are employed and each works40hours per week. Ten units of output are produced by each hour of labor.

(a) What is the total number of hours worked per week in the economy? What is the total output per week in the economy? What is labor productivity per hour? What is labor productivity per worker in a week? What is the unemployment rate?



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