What is the size of the working-age population


Problem

1. Suppose the stock of capital and the workforce are both increasing at 3 percent annually in the country of Wholand. At the same time, real output is growing at 6 percent. How is that possible in the short run and in the long run?

2. Suppose the number of employed people in an economy is 121,166,640. The unemployment rate in this economy is 10.4 percent, or .104, and the labor force participation rate is 72.5 percent, or .725.

a. What is the size of the labor force?

b. How many people are unemployed?

c. What is the size of the working-age population?

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