what makes someone considered out of the labor force?
when a person stops looking for work
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frictional unemployment
unemployment that occurs when people take time to find a job or are transitioning between jobs
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structural unemployment
unemployment that occurs due to changes in the structure of the economy, resulting in significant loss of jobs in industries
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cyclical unemployment
unemployment that occurs due to recessions and depressions
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what happens to the wage rate when there is an excess supply of labor?
the wage rate will fall until a new equilibrium is reached. everyone who wants a job at a lower wage rate will have one.
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labor demand curve
a graph that illustrates the amount of labor that firms want to employ at each given wage rate
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labor supply curve
a graph that illustrates the amount of labor that households want to supply at each given wage rate
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what happens at equilibrium with the labor supply and labor demand curve?
people who are not working have chosen not to work that that market wage, so there is always full employment.
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what happens to the aggregate supply curve when there are no sticky wages?
the aggregate supply curve is vertical
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if there are no sticky wages, monetary and fiscal policy have [blank] effect on real output.
no
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what happens to wages when the labor demand curve shifts to the left?
the wage decreases
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three common arguments for the existence of frictional or structural unemployment
efficiency wage theory \n imperfect information \n minimum wage laws
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imperfect information
firms may not have enough information at their disposal to know what the market-clearing wage is
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minimum wage laws
laws that set a floor for wage rates, that is, a minimum hourly rate for any kind of labor
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efficiency wage theory
the productivity of workers increases with the wage rate. firms are incentivized to pay wages above the market-clearing rate
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imperfect information
firms may not have enough information at their disposal to know what the market-clearing wage is
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minimum wage laws
laws that set a floor for wage rates, that is, a minimum hourly rate for any kind of labor
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sticky wages
the downward rigidity of wages as an explanation for the existence of unemployment
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social or implicit contracts
unspoken agreements between workers and firms that firms will not cut wages
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relative-wage explanation of unemployment
An explanation for sticky wages (and therefore unemployment): If workers are concerned about their wages relative to other workers in other firms and industries, they may be unwilling to accept a wage cut unless they know that all other workers are receiving similar cuts.
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explicit contracts
employment contracts that stipulate workers' wages, usually for a period of 1 to 3 years
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cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs)
contract provisions that tie wages to changes in the cost of living. the greater the inflation rate, the more wages are raised
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inflation rate
the percentage change in the price level
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phillips curve
a curve showing the relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate
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on the aggregate supply curve, there is a positive relationship between the [blank] and [blank]
price level (P) ; income (Y)
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what kind of relationship is on the phillips curve?
negative
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on the phillips curve, as the unemployment rate decreases, what happens to the price level?
it increases, since it is moving closer to capacity output
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the aggregate demand curve shifts to the [blank] if there is a positive relationship between price wage and income.
right
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the aggregate supply curve shifts to the [blank] if there is a negative relationship between price wage and income.
left
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what does it mean for the relationship between price wage and income if both the aggregate demand and aggregate supply curve are shifting?
there is no systematic relationship
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the phillips curve will shift to the [blank] if inflationary expectations increase
right
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the phillips curve will shift to the [blank] if inflationary expectations decrease
left
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natural rate of unemployment
the unemployment that occurs as a normal part of the functioning of the economy. sometimes taken as a sum of frictional unemployment and structural employment
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how is the phillips curve formed if the aggregate supply curve is vertical in the long run?
it is also vertical
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in the long run, the phillips curve corresponds to...
the natural rate of unemployment
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NAIRU
non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment
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what happens to the change in inflation rate if the actual unemployment rate is below the NAIRU?
the change in the inflation rate will be positive and accelerates
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what happens to the price level changing rate if the unemployment rate is equal to the NAIRU
there is no change in the rate
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stock
a certificate that certifies ownership of a certain portion of a firm
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capital gain
an increase in the value of an asset
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realized capital gain
the gain that occurs when the owner of a asset actually sells it for more than he or she paid for it
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yield to maturity formula
c/1+i, c/(1+i)^2, c/(1+i)^3… c/(1+i)^n, f/(1+i)^n
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what happens to the current stock price as the expected future dividends increase?
the price increases as well
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the price of the stock is equal to...
the discounted value of its expected future dividends
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dow jones industrial average
an index based on the stock prices of 30 actively traded large companies. the oldest and most widely followed index of the stock market performance
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nasdaq (national association of securities dealers automated quotation system) composite
an index based on the stock prices of more than 5000 companies traded on the nasdaq stock market.
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standard & poor's 500 (s&p 500)
an index based on the stock prices of 500 of the largest firms by market value
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hyman minsky
stability breeds instability
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stabilization policy
describes both monetary and fiscal policy, the goals of which are to smooth out fluctuations in output and employment and to keep prices as stable as possible
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time lags
delays in the economy's response to stabilization policies
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recognition lag
the time it takes for policymakers to recognize the existence of a boom or a slump
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implementation lag
the time it takes to put the desired policy into effect once economists and policymakers recognize that the economy is in a boom or a slump
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response lag
the time it takes for the economy to adjust to the new conditions after a new policy is implemented; the lag that occurs because of the operation of the economy itself
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there is a lag between the time a fiscal policy action is initiated and the time [blank]
the full change in gdp is realized
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response lags are longer for monetary policy or fiscal policy?
monetary
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deficits in recessions are
temporary and do not impose any long-run problems
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deficits at full employment are
able to have negative long-run consequences
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gramm-rudman-hollings act
passed by the us congress and signed by president reagan in 1986, this law set out to reduce the federal deficit by $36 billion per year, with a deficit of zero slated for 1991
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automatic stabilizers
revenue and expenditure items in the federal budget that automatically change with the economy in such a way as to stabilize gdp
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automatic destabilizers
revenue and expenditure items in the federal budget that automatically change with the economy in such a way to destabilize gdp
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life-cycle theory of consumption
a theory of household consumption: households make lifetime consumption decisions based on their expectations of lifetime income
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permanent income
the average level of a person's expected future income stream
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in early working and retirement years, people consume [blank] than they earn
more
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in between early working and retirement years, people [blank] to pay off [blank] from borrowing and to accumulate savings for retirement
save; debts
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substitution effect of a wage rate increase
a higher wage leads to a larger quantity of labor supplied
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income effect of a wage rate increase
people with higher income will spend some of it on leisure by working less, since leisure is a normal good.
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nominal wage rate
the wage rate in current dollars
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real wage rate
the amount the nominal wage rate can buy in terms of goods and services
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nonlabor, or nonwage, income
any income received from sources other than working-- inheritances, interest, dividends, transfer payments, and so on
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an unexpected increase in wealth or nonlabor income leads to...
a decrease in labor supply
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substitution effect of interest rate and consumption
a rise in the interest rate leads you to consume less and save more
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income effect of interest rate and income
a fall in the interest rate leads to a fall in interest income when
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unconstrained supply of labor
the amount of a household would like to work within a given period at the current wage rate if it could find the work
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constrained supply of labor
the amount a household actually works in a given period at the current wage rate
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keynesian theory
current income determines current consumption
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factors that affect household consumption and labor supply decisions
current and expected future real wages \n \n initial value of wealth \n \n current and expected future nonlabor income \n \n interest rates \n \n current and expected future tax rates and transfer payments
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animal spirits of entrepreneurs
a term coined by keynes to describe investors' feelings
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accelerator effect
the tendency for investment to increase when aggregate output increase and to decrease when output decreases, accelerating the growth or decline of output
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excess labor, excess capital
labor and capital that are not needed to produce the firm's current level of output
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adjustment costs
the costs that a firm incurs when it changes its production level (administration costs of laying off employees or the training costs of hiring new workers)
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inventory investment
the changes in the stock of inventories
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desired, or optimal, level of inventories
the level of inventory at which the extra cost (in lost sales) from lowering inventories by a small amount is just equal to the extra gain (in interest revenue and decreased storage costs)
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factors that affect firms' investment and employment decisions
firms' expectations of future output \n \n wage rate and cost of capital \n \n amount of excess labor and excess capital on hand
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productivity or labor productivity
output per worker hour
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okun's law
the short run the unemployment rate decrease about 1 percentage point for every 3% increase in real gdp
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discouraged-worker effect
The decline in the measured unemployment rate that results when people who want to work but cannot find jobs grow discouraged and stop looking, thus dropping out of the ranks of the unemployed and the labor force.
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effects that decrease the size of the multiplier
automatic stabilizers \n \n interest rate \n \n response of the price level \n \n excess capital and excess labor \n \n inventories \n \n people's expectations about the future
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output growth
the growth rate of the output of the entire economy
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per-capita output growth
the growth rate of output per person in the economy
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labor productivity growth
the growth rate of output per worker
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catch-up
the growth rates of less developed countries will exceed the growth rates of developed countries, allowing the less developed countries to catch up
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convergence theory
the idea that gaps in national incomes tend to close over time
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advantages of backwardness
the phenomenon of less developed countries leaping ahead by borrowing technology from more developed countries
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aggregate production function
An equation that shows the relationship stating that total gdp depends on the total amount of labor used and the total amount of capital used
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diminishing returns
as labor increases, less and less output will be added by each new worker
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foreign direct investment (fdi)
investment in enterprises made in a country by residents outside that country
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as the quality of labor increases through more education, the labor productivity...
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embodied technical change
technical change that results in an improvement in quality of capital