question archive Suppose the Australian economy is experiencing a contractionary output gap equal to -5 percent
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Suppose the Australian economy is experiencing a contractionary output gap equal to -5 percent. If the Okun’s law coefficient is assumed to be 2, frictional unemployment is 2 percent, structural unemployment is 3 percent, what is the unemployment rate?
a. 5%
b. 2.5%
c. 7.5%
d. 15%