The Sun Employment – Frictional Unemployment

One of the best ways of reducing frictional unemployment is to provide people with information about what jobs are available. Usually this is provided by the Job Centre but the government has got a surprise helper in the form of the Sun Newspaper. They have made it their ambition to get people back to work by providing an online service with over 3000 jobs advertised, e-mail alerts and even the option of uploading your CV. Clearly there are still jobs out there if you know where to look. Click read more for some questions on unemployment.

1. Explain one other way of reducing frictional unemployment (3 marks)

2. Explain two other types of unemployment. (4 marks)

3. State two ways in which unemployment can be measured. (2 marks)