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Stack #1900009
Term | Definition |
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Unemployment | person 16 years or older if they have actively searched for work in the last 4 weeks but are not currently employed |
Employment | who have worked at least 1 hour in the previous 2 weeks |
Labor Force | # employed persons + # unemployed persons |
Unemployment rate | a percentage of the labor force that is not currently employed. |
Labor Force Participation Rate | the percentage of the working age population 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 | these are people ready and available to work, who have conducted a job search within the past 12 months, but have not searched in the last 4 weeks. |
"Discouraged workers" | Do not meet the technical definition |
U3 | to measure those who fall between the cracks of the official rate |
U1 | only includes people unemployed 15 weeks or longer |
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 |
U4 | adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate |
U5 | includes all marginally attacked workers |
U6 | is the most all-inclusive measure of unemployment and includes all of the above plus those who are employed |
Friction unemployment | occurs when people voluntarily enter the labor force, or when they are between jobs for which they are qualified |
Structural unemployment | occurs when job seekers' skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence |
Creative destruction | structural unemployment is often the outcome of what the economist Joseph Schumpeter called |
Efficiency wages | are those that exceed the equilibrium market wage |
Cyclical unemployment | occurs because of contractions in the business cycle |
Full employment | occurs when cyclical unemployment is not present in the economy. |
Natural rate of employment | The natural rate hypothesis advanced by Noel economists Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps suggests that in the long run there is a level of unemployment that the economy maintains independent of the inflation rate |