Which of the following helps explain why it is so difficult to compare unemployment rates in the United States with unemployment rates in poorer countries? Select the correct answer below: Most poorer countries don’t measure unemployment at all. Many poorer countries lack the resources and technical capabilities to collect data of the same quality of that collected by the U.S. It is impossible to compare unemployment rates between countries with different sized populations. All of the above.

• All of the above.

Explanation:

Cross-country comparisons of unemployment rates is difficult to accurate determine whether it is between U.S and poorer countries or between other countries. This is because unemployment rate depends solely on the size of labor force and every country has different labor force sizes. Other two factors that make this comparison hard are differences in survey tools used for measuring unemployment and also differences in labor markets. Also note that not many poor countries have resources and technical capabilities of U.S Bureau of the Census.