Economics 15th Edition by James Gwartney,Richard Stroup,Russell Sobel,David Macpherson

Exercise 9

Classify each of the following as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force:
a. Brown is not working; she applied for a job at Walmart last week and is awaiting the result of her application.
b. Martinez is vacationing in Florida during a layoff at a General Motors plant due to a model changeover, but he expects to be recalled in a couple of weeks.
c. Green was laid off as a carpenter when a construction project was completed. He is looking for work but has been unable to find anything except a $10-per-hour job, which he turned down.
d. West works 70 hours per week as a homemaker for her family of nine.
e. Carson, a 17-year-old, works six hours per week as a delivery person for the local newspaper.
f. Chang works three hours in the mornings at a clinic and for the last two weeks has spent the afternoons looking for a full-time job.