What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Edexcel IGCSE 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.
- Saying anyone without a job is unemployed. They must be actively looking for work.
- Confusing unemployed with economically inactive.
- Confusing cyclical with structural unemployment, the causes and solutions are completely different.
- Suggesting higher government spending to fix structural unemployment.
- Giving only the effects on the individual, and forgetting the government and the economy.
- Forgetting that both measures miss discouraged workers and underemployment.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Employment and Unemployment revision notes.