What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past IB Economics papers and filtered to low 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.
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What examiners see students get wrong here
These are the errors that cost marks on low unemployment, taken from our own topic notes. Read them before you practise and you will recognise the traps in the questions.
- Dividing by the working-age population instead of the labour force.
- Counting the economically inactive as unemployed.
- Recommending demand-side policy for structural unemployment.
- Treating any unemployment as bad, some frictional unemployment is efficient.
- Saying full employment means zero unemployment.
- Listing costs without distinguishing individual, economic and social effects.
- Ignoring that the headline rate can move for measurement reasons rather than real ones.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Low Unemployment revision notes.