1.What does the natural rate of unemployment refer to?
Discuss.
2.What is the natural rate of unemployment equal to?
Discuss.
3.Can the natural rate of unemployment ever change? If so, how?
Discuss.
Explain how the introduction of the basic income system will
affect the natural unemployment rate by the Efficiency Way model,
the Way- Setting Price-Setting model.
The natural rate of unemployment and the natural level of
output.
Suppose that the firms’ mark-up over costs is 5% and the
wage-setting equation is W = P (1 − u) where u is the unemployment
rate.
(a) What is the real wage as determined by the price-setting
relationship?
(b) Solve for the natural rate of unemployment, that is, the
rate of unemployment at the real wage determined by the
price-setting relationship.
(c) Assume the production function is Y =...
1. What determines the natural rate of unemployment?
2. In the Solow model, how does the saving rate affect the
steady-state level of income? How does it affect the steady-state
rate of growth?
3. Why might an economic policymaker choose the Golden Rule
level of capital?
4. In the Solow model, how does the rate of population growth
affect the steady-state level of income? How does it affect the
steady-state rate of growth?
6. What is the difference between the natural rate of
unemployment and cyclical unemployment? How are these related to
structural and frictional unemployment? The President of the
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Branch Bank has suggested the natural
rate may have decreased in recent years. Offer some reasons why he
may be correct.
difference between the terms cyclical and seasonal unemployment.
Does natural rate of unemployment include cyclical unemployment ?
why?
(need 500-600 words with figure if possible)
What effect does an increase in the minimum wage have on the
natural unemployment rate? Why? Please feel free to use examples
with your posting (from the real world).
25. What does BLS say is the current natural
rate of unemployment?
4.0%
5.5%
10.2%
Trick
question: BLS does not provide a measure of the natural rate
26. Which of the following are reasons why the
official unemployment rate understates economic
hardship? (check all that apply)
Doesn`t
take into account discouraged workers
Doesn`t
take into account if there are other wage earners in the
household
Doesn`t
take into account the working poor
Doesn`t
take into account underemployment...
The natural rate of unemployment is the unemployment rate at
which the inflation rate has no tendency to increase or decrease.
However, the natural rate of unemployment is not fixed. What causes
changes in the natural rate of unemployment? Which of the
following will not cause the natural rate of unemployment to
change?
A. Many previous periods with high rates of unemployment.
B. Changes in the money supply resulting from monetary
policy.
C. Changes in labor market institutions.
D. Changes...