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econ
Term | Definition |
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Unemployment | Persons 16 years of age or older that 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 y\the previous two weeks |
Labor force | people who meet neither criterion |
Unemployment rate | A percentage of the labor force that is not currently employed |
Labor force participation rate | the percentage of the working age classified as either employed or 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 moths but have not searched in the past four weeks |
Discouraged workers | unemployed in the general sense, but because they do not meet the technical definition, the employment rate does not reflect their numbers |
U3 | The official unemployment rate to measure those who fall between the cracks of the official rate |
U1 | only includes people employed 15 weeks or longer |
U2 | People who have lost a job as opposed to those who have entered or re-entered the labor force or those who have quit |
U4 | Adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate |
U5 | all marginally attached workers |
U6 | The most all inclusive measure of unemployment and includes all of the above plus those who are employed part-time because of economic reasons |
Frictional unemplyment | occurs when people voluntarily enter the labor force, or when they are between jobs on which they are qualified |
Structural unemployment | Occurs when the job seekers skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence |
Creative distruction | structured unemployment. As innovation occurs, old technologies and industries are destroyed, which |
cylical unemployment | contractions in the business cycle |
full employment | when cylical unemployment is not present in ecnomy |
neutral rate unemployment | level of unemployment that economy maintains independent of the inflation rate |
efficiency wages | those that exceed the equilibrium market wage |