Helen Weals cannot get along with other people. If she has a job, she disrupts the work of all who are around her. Helen can no longer find work even though she is searching very hard. She is an example of:

a discouraged worker.
structural unemployment.
frictional unemployment.
someone not in the labor force.


Helen Weals cannot get along with other people. If she has a job, she disrupts the work of all who are around her. Helen can no longer find work even though she is searching very hard. In the jargon of economists, Helen's problem is that her marginal:

revenue product is probably negative.
revenue product exceeds her marginal resource cost.
resource cost is probably negative.
product is less than the marginal revenue.


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