Question 11 • * HSA 26-27 Economics
Rabia is unemployed because she has no job, even though she declined an offer. Since she is choosing to wait for a job with better pay and a better position, she fits frictional unemployment: a temporary period of job searching or moving between jobs. Structural unemployment would involve a mismatch between her skills and available jobs, which the question does not establish.
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