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Un/employment

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Unemployed   show
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show People who have worked at least one hour in the previous two weeks.  
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show The number of employed people plus the number of unemployed people.  
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Unemployment rate   show
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Labor force participation rate   show
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show Percentage of working age population classified as either employed or unemployed.  
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Marginally attached workers   show
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show A person who is eligible for employment and is able to work, but is currently unemployed and has not attempted to find employment in the last four weeks.  
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Frictional Unemployment   show
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show Workers who may lack the requisite job skills, or they may live far from regions where jobs are available but are unable to move there.  
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show It is a process through which something new brings about the demise of whatever existed before it.  
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show Wages that are higher than the market equilibrium.  
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show When business cycles are at their peak, cyclical unemployment will be low because total economic output is being maximized.  
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Full employment   show
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show It is a combination of frictional and structural unemployment that persists in an efficient, expanding economy when labor and resource markets are in equilibrium.  
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U-1   show
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show Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force  
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show Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)  
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U-4   show
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show Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other persons marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force  
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show Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force.  
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