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Unemployment
Economics: CH 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Unemployment: | People 16 or older who are actively searching for a job in the past month, but are without one. |
| Employed: | People who have worked at least one hour in the last two weeks. |
| Labor Force: | The number of employed people plus the number of unemployed people. |
| 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: | People ready and available to work, who have conducted a job search within the past 12 months but have not searched within the last 4 weeks. |
| Discouraged Workers: | People who do not meet the technical definition. |
| U3: | People who have fallen between the cracks of the official unemployment rate. |
| U1: | People unemployed for 15 weeks or longer. |
| U2: | People who have lost their jobs. |
| U4: | Adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate. |
| U5: | All marginally attached workers. |
| U6: | All of the above and those who are employed part-time because of economic reasons. |
| Frictional Unemployment: | Occurs when people voluntarily enter the labor force. (Between jobs) |
| Structural Unemployment: | Occurs when job seekers' skill set are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence. |
| Creative Destruction: | When workers must either retrain or accept a lower paying job due to the low demand of their skills. |
| Efficiency Wages: | Those that exceed the equilibrium market wage. |
| Cyclical Unemployment: | Occurs because of contractions in the business cycle. |
| Full Employment: | Occurs when cyclical employment is not present in the economy. |
| Natural Rate of Unemployment: | Is thought to be independent from the inflation rate. |