A clothing machinist loses her job when her employer permanently transfers production abroad. She is available and applying for work, but nearby vacancies require different skills. Separately, a laboratory assistant leaves one paid post and spends three weeks searching for a suitable vacancy before taking another.
Which option correctly classifies the unemployment of the clothing machinist and the laboratory assistant, in that order?
Structural, then cyclical
Seasonal, then structural
Frictional, then structural
Structural, then frictional
65 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Economics 3.2 Low unemployment, covering 3.2.1 Employment and unemployment, 3.2.2 Measuring unemployment, 3.2.3 Calculate the unemployment rate, 3.2.4 Analyse unemployment figures, 3.2.5 Types of unemployment, and 3.2.6 Causes and consequences of unemployment. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.