An Article in the Financial Times Reports on a Trend

Multiple Choice

An article in the Financial Times reports on a trend by college students to take a year off after graduation given the lack of success in finding a job. "In a survey published last month by TMP Worldwide... 54 per cent of the final-year undergraduate interviewees were thinking about taking a gap year and one in 10 was planning to wait for a year to escape the financial chaos and wait for the economy to either improve or for the picture to become clearer." www.ft.com, 10/13/2008
These choices add to the fluctuations seen in the ________ as workers leave the labor force given their unsuccessful job searches.

A) labor force participation rate
B) employment rate
C) efficiency wage
D) inflation rate