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Unemployment

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Unemployment   Persons sixteen or older that have actively searched for a job in the past 4 weeks without finding a job.  
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Employment   Those who have worked at least 1 hour in the past 2 weeks  
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Labor Force   The number of employed persons plus the number of unemployed persons  
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Unemployment Rate   A percentage of the labor force that is not currently employed  
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Labor Force Participating Rate   The percentage rate of the working age population classified as either employed or unemployed.  
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Employment-to-Population Ratio   The ratio of the working age population that is classified as employed.  
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Marginally Attached Workers   Those are people ready and available to work, who have applied in the past 12 months, but have not searched in the last 4 weeks.  
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Discouraged Workers   Workers who are unemployed in the general since, but because they do not meet the technical definition they are not counted in he official unemployment rate.  
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Frictional Unemployment   Occurs when people voluntarily enter the labor force, or they are between jobs which they are qualified for.  
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Structural Unemployment   Occurs when jobs seekers skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence.  
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Creative Distruction   Occurs when old technology and industries are destroyed, which frees up the resources for the new technology and its industry.  
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Efficiency Wages   Are those that exceed the equilibrium market wages  
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Cyclical Unemployment   Occurs because of contraction in the business cycle  
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Full Employment   occurs when cyclical unemployment in not present in the economy  
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Natural Rate of Unemployment   suggests that in the long run there is a level of unemployment that the economy maintains independent of the inflation rate.  
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U1   People unemployed 15 weeks or longer  
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U2   People who have lost a job as oppose to those who have quite or those who have entered or reentered the labor force  
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U3   To measure those who fall between the cracks of the official rate  
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U4   adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate  
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U5   includes all marginally attached workers  
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U6   all-inclusive measure of unemployment and includes all of the above plus those those who are employed part-time because of economc reasons  
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