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This stack is a review of terms found in Chapter 14.

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Definition
Unemployed   Persons 16 years or older that have actively searched for work in the last four weeks, but are not currently employed.  
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Employed   Persons who have worked at least one hour in the previous two weeks.  
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Labor Force   The number of employed people plus the number of unemployed people.  
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Unemployment Rate   A percentage of the labor force that is not currently employed.  
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Labor Force Participation Rate   The percentage of working age population classified as either employed or unemployed.  
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Employment-to-Population Ratio   The percentage of working age population that is classified as employed  
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Marginally Attached Workers   Persons not considered in the official unemployment rate.  
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Discouraged Workers   Persons that are unemployed in a general sense,but do not meet the technical definition. They are often products of Marginally Attached workers or part-timers.  
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U3   The official Unemployment rate often distributed by BLS.  
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U1   Only includes people unemployed 15 weeks or longer.  
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U2   Only includes people who have lost a job as opposed to those who have quit or those who have entered or re-entered the Labor Force.  
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U4   Includes/adds discouraged workers into the official unemployment rate.  
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U5   Includes all Marginally attached workers.  
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U6   The most all-inclusive of them all. It includes every type of worker or non-worker due to economic reasons.  
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Frictional Unemployment   It occurs when people voluntarily enter the labor force, or when they are between jobs for which they qualify.  
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Structural Unemployment   It occurs when job seekers' skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence. An outcome of creative destruction.  
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Creative Destruction   Occurs when old technology or industries die out, creating and freeing up resources for new technology and industries.  
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Cyclical Unemployment   Occurs because of contractions in the business cycle.  
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Full Employment   Occurs when cyclical unemployment is not present in the economy. This is economic nirvana and the goal that policymakers should seek to maintain.  
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Natural Rate of Unemployment   This is the natural rate hypothesis, which 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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Efficiency Wages   Those that exceed the equilibrium market wage  
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