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Unemployment
Term | Definition |
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Unemployed | The condition of not having a job but being a member of the labor force. 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 | Number of employed persons plus the number of unemployed persons. |
Unemployment Rate | Equal to the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of people in the labor force |
Labor Force Participation Rate | The labor force divided by the working age population. |
Employment-to-population ratio | The number of employed people divided by the working age population. |
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" | People who, for whatever reason, have given up the job search and are not officially classified as unemployed. |
U1 | The unemployment rate that only includes people unemployed fifteen weeks or longer. |
U2 | The unemployment rate that only includes people who have lost a job as opposed to those have quit or those who have entered or reentered the labor force. |
U3 | The official unemployment rate published by the BLS. |
U4 | The unemployment rate that adds discouraged workers to the official unemployment rate. |
U5 | The unemployment rate that includes all marginally attached workers. |
U6 | The most all-inclusive measure of unemployment. Includes all those who are employed part time because of economic reasons. |
Frictional Unemployment | Voluntary unemployment that occurs when a person enters the labor force and looks for a job. |
Structural Unemployment | When job seeker's skill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence. |
Efficiency Wages | A wage that exceeds the market wage. |
Cyclical Unemployment | Unemployment associated with downturns in the business cycle. |
Full Employment | The level of employment that exists when the economy is being productively efficient. |
Natural rate of unemployment | Rate of unemployment that exists when there is no cyclical unemployment present in the economy. |
Creative destruction | Refers to the ongoing process of technological innovation and industrial decline. |