multiple choice

When you include discouraged workers and unemployed workers in calculations of the unemployment rate:

Group of answer choices

a) the difference between this alternate measure and the official unemployment rate increases significantly during recessions.

b) this alternate measure is not useful in studying the macroeconomy.

c) this alternate measure is the same as the official unemployment rate.

d) this alternate measure is much lower than the official unemployment rate.

e) the difference between this alternate measure and the official unemployment rate increases significantly during economic expansions.