During an economy-wide downturn, falling household spending leads a furniture shop to make a sales employee redundant. Separately, a map-printing technician loses his job permanently as publishers switch to digital maps, and available vacancies require different skills.
Which option correctly classifies the unemployment of the furniture shop employee and the map-printing technician, in that order?
Structural, then cyclical
Cyclical, then structural
Frictional, then structural
Frictional, then cyclical
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.