During a recession, a printing company lays off five workers. which type of unemployment is this?

The unemployment occurring due to recession is termed as cyclical unemployment.

Explanation:

Generally, unemployment is classified as three types. They are cyclical, frictional and structural unemployment. The frictional unemployment is the period when the experienced or fresher takes time to find a new job without any job in their hand.

The structural unemployment is the unemployment where the skills required by the employer is different from the skills acquired by the employee leading to unemployment.

The third type i.e. Cyclical occurs during the recession time when the economy falls of a country forcing the management to reduce their man power in order to maintain financial balance. As this is cyclic nature so it is termed as cyclical unemployment.

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even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.