Homework 6 (Due Thursday, Feb. 9th)

For homework, classify the people described below in each of the following scenarios as either fictionally, structurally, or cyclically unemployed, and provide justification why. 

1.) Logan is currently unemployed because the tire factory where he used to work installed robots, which replaced 500 laborers, including Logan. 

2.) Rita is unemployed because she is in the process of reentering the labor force after taking time off to have a baby. 

3.) Diane is unemployed because she lost her job at McDonald's after the state increased in the minimum wage. 

4.) David is unemployed because he was laid off by the automobile factory when the economy entered a severe, prolonged recession. 

5.) Rachel left her former job at an accounting firm a month ago. She is in the process of interviewing for a similar position at six different accounting firms, although she has not accepted a job yet.