Edexcel A Level · 9EC0 · Theme 2: The UK economy: performance and policies
2.1.3 Employment and Unemployment
Also Edexcel AS 8EC0
Everything you need for questions on employment and unemployment, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- Measuring it
- The rates, and why inactivity matters
- Causes of unemployment
- Effects: who unemployment hits
- Migration, skills, and a classic chain
- Classic question: is unemployment always bad?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- Who counts as unemployed?
- The calculation trainer
- Why are people out of work?
- Who does unemployment hurt?
- Is unemployment always bad? Does immigration cause it?
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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