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Cambridge AS & A Level Economics

4.5Unemployment

Unemployment in Cambridge AS & A Level Economics: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 4.5.1Explain the meaning of unemployment.
  2. 4.5.2Explain the measures of unemployment and the difficulties of measurement.
  3. 4.5.3Explain the causes and types of unemployment: frictional, structural, cyclical, seasonal and technological.
  4. 4.5.4Explain the consequences of unemployment.

Lessons

  • Unemployment: measurement, types, causes and consequences

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Unemployment: sample question

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Which of the following would be counted as unemployed under the standard definition?

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