A Textile Firm Closes a Plant in Massachusetts and Transfers

A textile firm closes a plant in Massachusetts and transfers production to a plant in South Carolina, where the firm can take advantage of cheaper labor. The plant supervisor at the Massachusetts plant is given the opportunity to move to South Carolina to become the plant supervisor at that plant. He turns down this opportunity because of family obligations. While he is searching for a new job he would be classified as

A) structurally unemployed.
B) cyclically unemployed.
C) frictionally unemployed.
D) not in the labor force because he turned down the opportunity to relocate.