Unemployment Flashcards

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Full employment

A

Does not mean everyone who wants a job has one

Frictional unemployment likely to persist

At YFE still some seasonal, frictional , structural bit no demand deficient unemployment

Number of jobs = number of people wanting to work

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Underemployment

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Workers who want to work longer hours than offered

Workers are overqualified for there position

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3
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Hysteresis

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When workers become unemployed , loss of output is not only immediate they also lose skills , if long term unemployed

As resault if they find work during recovery they ll be less productive thus pace of future recovery and economic growth will be weaker

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