What this practice covers
These questions are drawn from past Cambridge 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.
- Dividing by the population instead of the labour force.
- Counting economically inactive people as unemployed.
- Recommending demand-side policy for structural unemployment.
- Treating all unemployment as damaging, some frictional unemployment is normal.
- Giving consequences only for the unemployed, ignoring the government and the wider economy.
- Confusing the claimant count with the Labour Force Survey.
Revise it first
If any of the above is unfamiliar, work through the notes before practising: Employment and Unemployment revision notes.