Evaluate ways a government might make competing policy aims compatible over a longer horizon.
AQA · 7136 / 7135
Employment and unemployment comes up in 29 questions across the AQA A Level and AS past papers (7136 / 7135), worth 184 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2023 and appear on A Level Paper 2, A Level Paper 3.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Multiple choice (16), Evaluate (3), Using the data (3). Specification points covered: 4.2.3.1, 4.2.3.2, 4.2.3.3, 4.2.3.4.
Evaluate ways a government might make competing policy aims compatible over a longer horizon.
Explain what can make an economy's output expand.
Evaluate whether expanding output typically makes people better off.
Decide whether output gaps are positive or negative across two years.
Explain why unemployment returns to its natural level after policy intervention.
Find the gap between average jobless rates in two countries across four years of chart data.
Use chart data to show a possible short-term inverse link between joblessness and rising prices.
Diagram question on why lowering import taxes might bring down the rate of price rises.
Explain the difficulties an economy faces when actual output runs well above its trend capacity.
Pick the indicator combination pointing to an economy in boom.
Deduce the labour market outcome as holiday spending patterns shift.
Name the labour market barrier created by regional housing costs.
Calculate the yearly change in South Korean consumer prices to the end of a stated year.
Assess measures for smoothing out booms and slumps in Britain.
Which pairing of outcomes shows objectives pulling against one another in the short term.
Calculate the jobless rate from labour force and population figures.
Which combined shocks would push spending above the economy's capacity.
Compute the size and sign of the gap when growth falls short of trend.
Work out the average jobless rate for Britain across an eleven-year span of chart data.
Explain how sudden disturbances to demand or supply can push up joblessness.
Evaluate whether Britain's chief macroeconomic aims can be met together without tension.
Interpret four years of price and money-growth figures to judge which conclusion holds.
What the vertical long-run relationship between joblessness and prices implies about any trade-off.
Work out the natural rate from given frictional, structural, real wage and demand-deficient figures.
Use the data to show weakening confidence in projections for expansion.
Identify the gap and type of joblessness after credit dried up in the crisis.
Say what the upright axis measures on a short-term unemployment-inflation curve.
Which pairing of velocity and output changes makes monetary expansion most inflationary.
Explaining figures where growth strengthens while joblessness and price rises both ease.
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