-On December 31, 2008, on a Remote Northern Island There

$$\begin{array}{l}\text { Labor Market Flows }\\\begin{array} { l c } \quad \text { During 2009 } & \text { Number of People } \\\hline \text { Hires and recalls } & 1,000 \\\text { Job losers } & 500 \\\text { Job leavers } & 300 \\\text { Entrants } & 200 \\\text { Reentrants } & 300 \\\text { Withdraw als } & 300\end{array}\end{array}$$
-On December 31, 2008, on a remote northern island there were 18,000 people employed, 2,000 people unemployed, and 5,000 people not in the labor force.The table above gives information taken from a labor survey on this island.The unemployment rate between December 2008 and December 2009

A) increases.
B) decreases.
C) increases then decreases.
D) does not change.
E) cannot be calculated without information about the working-age population.