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14. Which of the following is the best example of voluntary unemployment?
a. as the economy enters into a recession, a construction worker loses her job as demand for new
housing has decreased, and although she is willing to work at the current wage, no one will hire her
b. workers at a local firm are laid off after being effectively replaced by new technology
c. a worker at a fast food restaurant quits their full time job in order to work part time instead
d. when an unemployed worker decides to stop looking for a new job, and instead starts attending a
trade school (e. g. plumbing school or electrician school)
e. after hearing that fast food employees in a nearby city are paid more for doing the exact same
work, fast food employees leave their current job in order to search for one of these better paying
fast food jobs
f. when agricultural workers are no longer hired during the Winter, due to a change in the season
which results in less agricultural work being available