4 marks
Q10 Explain what underemployment means, using US graduates in low-skilled work and part-timers wanting longer hours.
Edexcel · 9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14
Employment comes up in 5 questions across the Edexcel A Level, AS and International A Level past papers (9EC0 / 8EC0 / WEC11–14), worth 17 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2024 and appear on International A Level Unit 2.
Tariffs run from 1 to 6 marks. The commonest instructions are Explain (2), Define (1), Analyse (1). Specification points covered: 2.3.1.3.
Q10 Explain what underemployment means, using US graduates in low-skilled work and part-timers wanting longer hours.
Q7 Explain one way that inward migration of roughly 300 000 people affected jobs in Nepal.
Q12(a) Give the meaning of 'seasonally adjusted' as used in Figure 1.
Q12(c) Drawing on Extract A, analyse how net migration might affect Australian employment or unemployment levels.
Q2 Using a table of people in employment in Jordan in January 2017 and January 2018, calculate the percentage change.
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