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Vocab

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Unemployed   People 16yrs+ who have actively searched for work in the last 4 weeks but are not currently employed  
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Employed   People who have worked at least 1hr in the previous 2 weeks  
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Labor Force   Number of employed people plus number of unemployed people  
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Unemployment Rate   Percentage of labor force that is not currently employed  
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Labor Force Participation Rate   Percentage of working age population classified as either employed or unemployed  
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Employment-to-Population Ratio   Percentage of working age population that is classified as employed  
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Marginally Attached Workers   People ready & available to work who have conducted a job search in the last year, but not in the last month  
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Discouraged Workers   People who have given up the job search in frustration and don't meet unemployment qualifications  
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U3   Official unemployment rate  
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U1   Unemployed 15 weeks or longer  
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U2   Lost a job as opposed to quit or reentered the labor force  
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U4   Adds discouraged workers to official unemployment rate  
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U5   All marginally attached workers  
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U6   Inclused U1-5 plus people employed part-time because of economic reasons  
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Frictional Unemployment   Voluntarily enter the work force or are between jobs they are qualified for  
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Structural Unemployment   When job seekers' sill sets are not in demand because of geography or obsolescence  
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Creative Destruction   Happens when innovation occurs, and old technologies & industries are destroyed  
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Efficiency Wages   Those that exceed the equilibrium market wage  
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Cyclical Unemployment   Occurs because of contractions in the business cycle  
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Full Employment   Occurs when cyclical unemployment isn't present in the economy  
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Natural Rate of Unemployment   In the long run, a level of unemployment that the economy maintains independent of the inflation rate  
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