Unemployment
theories
further concepts
monetary policy
True or false
100

Unemplyment level changes with the business cycle 

Cyclical

100

A rise in price results in fall in demand

Law of demand

100

These are the free forces that coordinates the market without government intervention as mentioned in Adam Smith's invisible hand

demand and supply

100

Policy government uses to reduce cost of production for the producers

provision of subsidy

100

Indirect taxes shift the supply curve

True 

200

measurement of unemployed as per those who register to claim unemployment benefits

Claimant count

200

The more we consume something the less we want of it

marginal utility

200

 The gap in demand and supply that arises from a price ceiling

shortages

200

The minimum price of labour that a producer must pay as per law

Minimum wages

200

Indirect taxes lead to welfare loss

True

300

Voluntary unemployment is a type of _____ unemployment

frictional

300

The substitution effect and income effect adds up to explain this law

Law of demand

300

Social surplus or welfare benefits that are lost to society because resources are not allocated efficienty

dead weight loss

300

Payment of this reduces the income of the consumers to be spent on goods and services- a leakage

Tax

300

Price floors give rise to shortages

False

400

One adverse impact of increase in unemployment

Lower consumption, higher crime rates, mental illness, increased poverty

400

Cost of production, technology, prices of joint goods

non-price determinant of suuply

400

Consumer surplus when elasticity of demand is inelastic 

Infinity

400

A fixed amount of tax per unit of the good or service sold

Specific taxes

400

Buying and selling transactions that go unrecorded and are often illegal exist in unorganised economy

False.

500

One good effect

Fall in inflation, higher availability of labour

500

additional cost of producing one more unit of output.

marginal cost

500

The curve that illustrates the YEDs of a product

Engel curve

500

The amount of tax increases as the price of the good or service increases

ad valorem

500

A higher tax burden leads to higher percentage of GDP taken away as tax

True

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