1. Unemployment
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Economics Unit 6, Lesson 3

2. Objectives Define unemployment
Describe the different types of unemployment
Describe how full employment is measured
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3. Unemployment
The number of people (over 16) who do not have jobs but are actively seeking a job.
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4. What are the problems with unemployment figures?
1. hidden unemployment or discouraged worker. This is the worker who is no longer looking for a job so he would not be included with the unemployment number. This worker is still a problem for the economy. We are not using this labor resource efficiently.
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5. Problems with the unemployment figures
under employment- worker’s skills do not match jobs. The worker is overqualified for a job or working at a job below their skills. This could be a person with a master’s degree in English who is working as a waiter. Again, we are not using this labor resource efficiently.
Causes unemployment numbers to be understated
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6. Four Types of Unemployment
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7. 1. Frictional - “between jobs” considered normal, a worker leaves a job to look for a better one. Work your way through college as a waiter and quit to look for better job with your degrees
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8. Types of Unemployment
Seasonal - weather change or annual patterns, change of seasons or weather, cause job loss.
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9. 3. Structural -change in how economy operates; an entire industry fails; people no longer demand or want that product. The worker’s skills do not match the jobs that are available
workers need new training to enter different industry
There are four major causes of structural unemployment
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10. Four Causes of Structural Unemployment
New technology – new innovations and ideas sometimes make the old ones obsolete.
Change in consumer demand – tastes change and consumers may stop purchasing old items
Globalization – jobs may be relocated to another country
Lack of education – some people do not have the minimum education or training for the jobs available today.
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11. 4. Cyclical - jobs are lost in correlation with the business cycle (recession - lose job). This is the worst type of unemployment for the economy and the one we worry about.
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12. Economic Impact of unemployment is that our standard of living goes down and the economy faces an economic slowdown.
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13. Full employment
An unemployment rate below 6% is considered full employment
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