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Chapter 10 Macro

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Employed   Paid Emloyees, self-employed, workers in a family business, unpaid workers  
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Unemployed   Not working and have looked for work during the previous 4 weeks  
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Not in the labor force   Everyone else; retired, under 16, full-time students/parents, disablilites, unpaid homemaker, volunteer  
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Discouraged workers   People who are unemployed and looking for a job but then give up looking for a job  
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Labor force   employed + unemployed  
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Unemployment rate   # of unemployed divided by labor force  
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Labor force participation rate   labor force divided by adult population; excludes people under 16  
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Natural rate of unemployment   thought to be around 5%  
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Frictional unemployment   -workers in the process of moving from one job to another -workers' tastes and skills -job requirements -short-term for most workers  
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Sectoral shifts   one part of the economy is shrinking and another is growing  
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Policies affecting job search   employment agencies, training programs, and unemployment insurance (Effects: income protection, more time to search = better job matches = greater productivity)  
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Structural unemployment   -not having enough jobs to go around because wage is high - occurs when wage is above equilibrium - usually long-term  
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frictional + structural   normal rate of unemployment around which the actual unemployment rate fluctuates  
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Wage is above equilibrium because of... (Structural unemployment)   minimum wage laws, unions, efficiency wages  
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Efficiency wages   firms voluntarily pay above-equilibrium wages to boost worker productivity; worker health, worker turnover, worker equality, worker effort  
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Cyclical unemployment   unemployment associated with the business cycle  
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natural unemployment   the amount of unemployment that exists even when the economy is healthy, due to social or political factors  
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labor union   an organization of workers that negotiates with employers, as a group, over wages and working conditions  
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unemployment insurance   does not help reduce frictional employment  
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If a job is lost and person immediately begins searching for another...   increases unemployment rate and labor-force participation rate is uneffected  
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Wage in excess of their equilibrium level help explain...   both structural unemployment and natural rate of unemployment  
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When unions raise wages in some sectors of the economy, the supply of labor in other sectors of the economy...   increases, reducing wages in industries that are not unionized  
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