Listen to the following talk about unemployment, then answer the multiple choice questions below. Make sure you read all 3 questions carefully before you start.
1. A year from now, the unemployment rate will be
A) fairly good
B) not as high in California
C) very high for the country as a whole
2. One problem is that
A) employees cannot work for more than 33 hours per week
B) employers will extend working hours instead of hiring new staff
C) there are too many part-time workers
3. If the economy begins to improve
A) more people will be discouraged from looking for work
B) people will think that there are more job opportunities
C) there will be an expansion of the workforce
1. C
2. B
3. B
Posted by: Matt | October 22, 2019 at 16:00
1. C
2. B
3. B
By the way, I love his American accent.
Posted by: William Tran | October 22, 2019 at 18:07
1. C
2. B
3. B
Posted by: Bella | October 23, 2019 at 00:47
1. C
2. B
3. A
Posted by: Collin | October 23, 2019 at 02:30
1.C
2.B
3.A
Posted by: DOVAN DUNG | October 23, 2019 at 02:33
1-C
2-B
3-C
Posted by: ATITI | October 23, 2019 at 04:42
1.C
2.B
3.C
Posted by: TRIEU | October 23, 2019 at 05:23
1.C
2.B
3.B
Posted by: Nathan_long | October 23, 2019 at 05:29
1.C
2.B
3.B
Posted by: mukesh kumar | October 23, 2019 at 06:33
1.C
2.B
3.C
Posted by: Ali Alattas | October 23, 2019 at 10:10
C, B, B
Posted by: Keiko | October 23, 2019 at 11:19
1.C
2.B
3.B
Posted by: Sandy | October 23, 2019 at 14:19
1. C
2. B
3. B
Posted by: Ha Ngoc Hong Gam | October 23, 2019 at 15:33
C
B
B
Posted by: Pachu | October 24, 2019 at 00:30
A B B
Posted by: Winson | October 24, 2019 at 02:48
C
B
A
Posted by: Joon | October 24, 2019 at 05:06
What will the unemployment rate be a year from now? The economy seems to do a little better, and as I said, things are getting worse more slowly, and therefore, one might assume that the unemployment rate a year from now would be; Well fairly good or at least not nearly as bad, but I am going to disappoint you. My prediction is that the unemployment rate a year from now is going to be 9 or 10 per cent still going to be very, very high nationally. I'm not talking about California, which has been running even higher, I'm talking about nationally. Why would that be? Well, there are two major reasons even if we as a nation enjoy a fairly moderately robust recovery or even any kind of recovery between now and a year from now.
The thing you need to keep in mind is number one the workweek, the average workweek right now is only about 33 hours, which means that when employers get around to hiring people and it's going to take a long time before employers have the courage and confidence to start hiring again. But let's assume that employers start hiring and some industries and some businesses are already beginning; It's going to take a long time before they decide they need to hire. Because they can use their own workers, and just expand the number of hours their own workers are putting in. Three 33 hour workweek means that you have a lot of room to just keep on paying your own workers for more time.
I should add that these are not classified necessarily as part-time workers. Many of these workers are classified as full-time workers. They're just working a …. much shorter workweek. The second thing to keep in mind, and this is one of the paradoxes and ironies of the way we measure unemployment is that as the economy begins to improve, more and more people who have been out of the workforce too discouraged to look for work, Decide that they might have a better chance getting a job. And so they're going to start looking.
And the Bureau of Labor Statistics measures unemployment in the household survey by knocking on people's doors and saying are you looking for work. And if you've got more people looking for work and fewer people discouraged to such an extent that they don't look then you have a higher unemployment rate than you do when you have a massive number of people as we do right now who are too discouraged even to look. So for those two reasons that are a shorter workweek that is going to permit a lot of expansion of your own workforce before you have to hire outside. And secondly because of the way in which we measure under the household survey unemployment we are likely to have a fairly high.
And I'd say again nine or 10 per cent unemployment rate a year from now.
Posted by: Mohammad Attarzadeh | October 24, 2019 at 09:31
1.B
2.B
3.B
Posted by: Susan | October 24, 2019 at 21:41
1. C
2. B
3. A
Posted by: Nguyen Thi Anh Xao | October 25, 2019 at 03:48
1.B
2.B
3.A
Posted by: mairmoika | October 25, 2019 at 06:12
1.C
2.B
3.B
Posted by: shurov | October 25, 2019 at 07:22
1.C
2.B
3.B
Posted by: quan | October 25, 2019 at 08:06
1.C
2.B
3.B
Posted by: Thine | October 25, 2019 at 15:03
1. C
2. B
3. A
Thank @Mohammad Attarzadeh for the flawless tapescript!
Posted by: Loc Vo | October 25, 2019 at 17:21
C
B
A
Posted by: Wayz | October 27, 2019 at 16:38
C.A.A.
Posted by: Judy | October 30, 2019 at 20:15
1C, 2B, 3A
Posted by: Tinh | November 05, 2019 at 07:05
C
B
A
Posted by: Eli | November 06, 2019 at 20:48
C
B
C
Posted by: Sukriti | November 08, 2019 at 05:56
CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
C
B
B
Posted by: Simon | November 08, 2019 at 14:32
C
B
B
Posted by: Mahshid | November 26, 2019 at 16:56
C
B
B
Posted by: Chidimma | November 27, 2019 at 15:21
C
B
B
Posted by: Svah | December 16, 2019 at 02:50
CAB
Posted by: atefeh | January 27, 2020 at 11:17
A C B
Posted by: Mari | February 17, 2020 at 13:57