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Unemployment
Econ unemployment and employment
Term | Definition |
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Unemployed | If you have actively searched for a job in the past 4 weeks without getting one |
Employed | If you have worked at least one hour in the past 2 weeks |
Labor force | Number of employed and unemployed people |
Employment to population ratio | Percentage of working age population classified employed |
Labor force participation rate | Percentage of working age population either employed or unemployed |
Marginally attached Workers | People ready and available to work and have conducted a job search in the past 12 months |
Discouraged workers | People who have given up the job search in frustration |
U1 | Only includes people unemployed for 15 weeks or longer |
U2 | Only people who have lost jobs |
U3 | Official unemployment rate |
U4 | Adds discouraged workers to official unemployment rate |
U5 | Includes all marginally attached workers |
U6 | All of the above plus part timers |
Frictional Unemployment | When people voluntarily enter the workforce or when they are between jobs they qualify for |
Structural unemployment | When job seekers skills sets are not in demand |
Creative destruction | Innovation occurs old technology and industries are destroyed |
Efficiency wages | Those that exceed the equilibrium market wage |
Cyclical unemployment | Caused by contractions in the business cycle |
Full Employment | When cyclical unemployment is not present |
Natural rate of unemployment | There is a level of unemployment that the economy maintains independent of the inflation rate |
unemployment rate | Percentage of unemployed people in the labor force |