Answer to Question #304631 in Macroeconomics for ashes

Question

Question

If I offered a job to someone to clean my house at $1 per hour, and unemployed people chose not to take the job, should they be classed as ‘voluntarily' unemployed?

Answer 1

If people choose not to accept a job at the going wage, even though there are jobs available, then in a sense they could be said to have voluntarily chosen to be unemployed