Which worker is experiencing frictional unemployment?
A furniture-factory worker is made redundant when total demand falls in a downturn and orders dry up.
An electrician leaves one firm and spends a month applying for suitable vacancies before starting at another.
A Christmas-tree farm worker is laid off every January and taken on again each autumn.
A bank cashier loses their job as customers move to online banking, and nearby vacancies need different skills.
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.