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if a country had an adult population (those 15 years of age and over) of 200 million
and a labor force of 160 million, and 140 million people were employed, what would be
its labor force participation rate and its unemployment rate?
b. If 20 million new jobs were created in the country and it attracted to the labor
force 20 million of the people who were previously not in the labour force, what would
be its new labour force participation rate and its unemployment rate?
c. Beginning from the situation in (a), if 10 million unemployed people became
discouraged and stopped looking for work, what would be the country’s new labour
force participation rate and its unemployment rate?
d. Beginning from the situation in (a), if 1 million refugees enter the economy as
residents where only 20% of these become employed as workers while the rest decides
not to look for a job what is now the new population, labour force, employed population
and the corresponding new labour force participation unemployment rates?