中等ECON-INFL-005
The natural rate of unemployment consists of:
A. Only cyclical unemployment
B. Discouraged workers, who are outside the labour force
C. Frictional and structural unemployment, with cyclical unemployment equal to zero✓ 答案
D. The whole population aged 15 and above
解說
The natural rate is frictional plus structural unemployment, the rate when the economy is at its normal output and cyclical unemployment is zero. Discouraged workers are not in the labour force, so they are not part of that rate.