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McConnell Brue Chapter 8 Econ
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Economics
12th Grade
11/28/2012

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Structural Unemployment
Definition
unemployment of workers whose skills are not demanded by employers, who lack sufficient skill to obtain employment, or who cannot easily move to locations where jobs are easily available
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Demand Pull Inflation
Definition
increases in the price level resulting from an excess of demand over output at current price leve
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Inflation
Definition
a rise in the general prices of the economy
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Unemployment Rate
Definition
the percentage of the labor force unemployed at any time
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Okun's Law
Definition
Generalization that any 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate above the full employment unemployment rate will increase GDP gap by 2 percent
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GDP Gap
Definition
the amount by which actual GDP falls below potential output
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Real Interest Rate
Definition
the interest rate expressed in dollars of constant value and equal to nominal interest rate
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Real GDP
Definition
GDP adjusted for inflation
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real income
Definition
the amount of goods/servs that can be purchased with nominal income
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productivity
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a measure of average output or real output per unit of output
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Natural Rate of Unemployment
Definition
The full employment, unemployment rate
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Business Cycle
Definition
recurring increases and decreases in the level of economic activity over periods of years
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