What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past CIE 9708 papers and filtered to employment and unemployment. You answer, you find out immediately whether you were right, and you get the reasoning for the correct option and for each distractor. Wrong answers go to a mistakes locker so you can come back to exactly those.
Practice is free. You need an account only so your progress and your mistakes are still there next time.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on employment and unemployment, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Treating the original Phillips curve as a stable menu still available today.
- Failing to distinguish the short run curves from the vertical long run curve.
- Saying expectations shift the economy along the curve rather than shifting the curve itself.
- Confusing the natural rate with zero unemployment, or treating it as fixed forever.
- Explaining stagflation only by supply shocks and omitting expectations, or the reverse.
- Forgetting that reducing inflation has a cost in unemployment above the natural rate.
- Ignoring hysteresis, which leaves the answer unable to justify any demand-side response.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Employment and Unemployment revision notes.