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Unemployment
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20 CXC CSEC Economics questions on Unemployment, each with instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme.

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Question 1 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

Which of the following BEST describes unemployment?

  1. Persons who are not willing to work at the current wage rate
  2. Persons who are able and willing to work but cannot find a job
  3. Persons who have retired from the labour force
  4. Persons who are too young to be in the labour force
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✓ Answer: BPersons who are able and willing to work but cannot find a job
Award 1 mark for identifying that unemployment refers to persons who are able and willing to work but cannot find employment. A is incorrect — unwillingness to work at the current wage is voluntary non-participation. C is incorrect — retirees are not part of the labour force. D is incorrect — persons below working age are excluded from labour force statistics.
Question 2 · 1 mark · Difficulty 1/3

A hotel worker in Barbados is laid off every year between May and November when tourist arrivals decline. This worker is experiencing

  1. cyclical unemployment
  2. seasonal unemployment
  3. structural unemployment
  4. frictional unemployment
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✓ Answer: Bseasonal unemployment
Award 1 mark for seasonal unemployment. This occurs when employment fluctuates according to regular patterns in certain industries, such as tourism in the Caribbean. A is incorrect — cyclical unemployment relates to the business cycle. C is incorrect — structural unemployment involves permanent industrial change. D is incorrect — frictional unemployment is short-term job searching.
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CXC CSEC Economics: Unemployment FAQ

How many CXC CSEC Economics questions on Unemployment are there on Kramizo?
Kramizo currently has 20 exam-board-aligned practice questions on Unemployment for CXC CSEC Economics, with new questions added every week. Each question gives you instant feedback and a full examiner-style mark scheme that tells you exactly what would earn marks on a real CXC paper. The questions span the full difficulty range — from straightforward recall (level 1) right up to multi-step reasoning and evaluation (level 3) — so the bank works for first-pass revision and final exam-week stress testing alike.
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Are the Unemployment questions aligned to the official CXC CSEC Economics syllabus?
Every question is written against the published CXC CSEC Economics specification, including the exact command words (state, describe, explain, calculate, evaluate, etc.), mark allocations, and difficulty tier you'd see on a real CXC paper. Explanations are written in the style of official examiner mark schemes — they tell you what is being awarded marks and why distractors are wrong, not just whether you got it right. The bank is continually refined to match the latest syllabus updates from CXC.
How is Unemployment typically tested on CXC CSEC Economics papers?
Unemployment appears across multiple question types on real CXC CSEC Economics papers — most commonly as multiple-choice questions in the objective section, structured short-answer questions in the main paper, and occasionally as part of an extended response. Kramizo's practice bank reflects that mix: 4-option MCQs, true/false statements, fill-in-the-blank key terms, multi-select questions, and ordering questions. Working through the bank gives you exposure to every question style examiners actually use.

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