Question

Are the following workers more likely to experience short-term or long-term unemployment and explain:

a) A construction worker laid off because of bad weather.
b) A manufacturing worker who loses her job at a plant in an isolated area.
c) A stagecoach-industry worker laid off because of competition from railroads.
d) A short-order cook who loses his job when a new restaurant opens across the street.
e) An expert welder with little formal education who loses her job when the company installs automatic welding machinery.