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Mario was laid off two months ago. He has not searched for other work because he is expecting to be recalled to work. In the U.S. labor force statistics Mario is counted as

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Answer:

Not much information to go off

Step-by-step explanation:

This is hard to answer since there is no information about the state of the economy. If the economy is doing poor and that is his reason for unemployment, he is cyclically unemployed.

If he is just waiting for his job, he is frictionally unemployed because he is between jobs.

If you are not looking for a specific type of unemployment, he could be classified as not part of the labor force as he is not looking for a job.

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