QUESTION 4 Suppose the Bureau of Labor Statistics posted unemployment statistics for this quarter as follows: frictional unemployment 3% structural unemployment 2% cyclical unemployment 2.5% We could calculate the unemployment rate to be % and the natural rate of unemployment to be %.
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