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Lisaclaire

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Suppose there are 180 million employed people and 20 million unemployed people.
 
  a. What is the unemployment rate?
  b. Suppose that 5 million unemployed people give up their search for jobs and become discouraged workers. What is the new unemployment rate?

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The burden of a tax falls entirely on buyers if ________.
 
  A) the price elasticity of demand is zero (perfectly inelastic)
  B) the price elasticity of demand is greater than 1
  C) the income elasticity of demand is high
  D) the price elasticity of supply is unitary elastic


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Athena23

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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a. The unemployment rate is (20 million unemployed  200 million labor force)  100 = 10.0 percent.
b. The unemployment rate is (15 million unemployed  195 million labor force)  100 = 7.7 percent.

Answer to Question 2

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Lisaclaire

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Reply 2 on: Jun 29, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Excellent

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