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

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Term
Definition
Unemployed   show
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Employed   show
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show The number of employed people plus the number of unemployed people.  
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show A percentage of the labor force that is not currently employed.  
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Labor Force Participation Rate   show
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Employment-to-Population Ratio   show
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show Persons not considered in the official unemployment rate.  
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show 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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show The official Unemployment rate often distributed by BLS.  
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U1   show
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show 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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show Includes/adds discouraged workers into the official unemployment rate.  
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U5   show
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U6   show
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Frictional Unemployment   show
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Structural Unemployment   show
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show Occurs when old technology or industries die out, creating and freeing up resources for new technology and industries.  
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Cyclical Unemployment   show
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Full Employment   show
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show 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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show Those that exceed the equilibrium market wage  
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