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Terms of Employment
A lesson from Economy class
Term | Definition |
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Unemployed | If they have actively searched for work in the last four weeks but are not currently employed. |
Employed | Those who have worked at least one hour in the previous two weeks. |
Labor Force | The number of employed persons plus number of unemployed persons. |
Unemployment Rate | Percentage of the labor force that is not currently employed. |
Labor Force Participation Rate | The percentage of the working age population classified as either employed and unemployed. |
Employment-to-population Ratio | The percentage of the working age population that is classified as employed. |
Marginally Attached Workers: | People ready and available to work, who have conducted a job search within the past twelve months, but have not searched any. |
"Discouraged Workers" | Unemployed in the general sense, but because they do not meet meet the technical definition. |
Frictional Unemployment | Occurs when job people voluntarily enter the labor force, or when they are between jobs for which they are qualified. |
Structural Unemployment | Occurs when seekers' skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence. |
Creative Destruction | Structural employment is often the outcome. |
Efficiency Wages | Those those that exceed the equilibrium market wage. |
Cyclical Unemployment | Occurs because of contractions in the business. |
Natural Rate of Unemployment | Natural rate that economy maintains independently. |
Full Employment | Occurs when cyclical unemployment is not present in the economy. |
U1 | People unemployed fifthteen weeks or longer |
U2 | Only includes people who have lost a job opposed to those who quit a job. |
U3 | To measure stacks between cracks |
U4 | Adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate. |
U5 | Includes all marginally attached workers |
U6 | The most all-inclusive measure of unemployment includes all of the above plus those who are employed part-time. |