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Terms of Employment
A lesson from Economy class
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Unemployed | If they have actively searched for work in the last four weeks but are not currently employed. |
| Employed | Those who have worked at least one hour in the previous two weeks. |
| Labor Force | The number of employed persons plus number of unemployed persons. |
| Unemployment Rate | 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 and unemployed. |
| Employment-to-population Ratio | The percentage of the working age population that is classified as employed. |
| Marginally Attached Workers: | People ready and available to work, who have conducted a job search within the past twelve months, but have not searched any. |
| "Discouraged Workers" | Unemployed in the general sense, but because they do not meet meet the technical definition. |
| Frictional Unemployment | Occurs when job people voluntarily enter the labor force, or when they are between jobs for which they are qualified. |
| Structural Unemployment | Occurs when seekers' skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence. |
| Creative Destruction | Structural employment is often the outcome. |
| Efficiency Wages | Those those that exceed the equilibrium market wage. |
| Cyclical Unemployment | Occurs because of contractions in the business. |
| Natural Rate of Unemployment | Natural rate that economy maintains independently. |
| Full Employment | Occurs when cyclical unemployment is not present in the economy. |
| U1 | People unemployed fifthteen weeks or longer |
| U2 | Only includes people who have lost a job opposed to those who quit a job. |
| U3 | To measure stacks between cracks |
| U4 | Adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate. |
| U5 | Includes all marginally attached workers |
| U6 | The most all-inclusive measure of unemployment includes all of the above plus those who are employed part-time. |