Unemployment and Crew
Types of Unemployment
Inflation
Price Index
Business Cycle
100

In the economy, the concept regarding the total number of 16+ aged adults who are willing & able to work, are looking for work, and have not yet found a job, is known as this.

What is Unemployment?

100

This type of unemployment comes from people pursuing new job opportunities.

What is Frictional Unemployment?

100

This occurs when the purchasing power of a dollar decreases over time (we experience this in real life all the time).

What is Inflation?

100

The Consumer Price Index = (Cost of Market Basket _____) / (Cost of Market Basket in the Base Year) x 100.

What is "today?"

100

Slide A -- The type of activity that is occurring here.

What is Expansion?

200

When you add the total number of *unemployed* and employed individuals, you get this!

What is the Labor Force?

200

This type of unemployment results when workers are 'forced' out of work due to changes in the structure of the economy. An example of this would be a factory worker losing his job to a robot.

What is Structural Unemployment?

200

This occurs when prices decrease in the economy over time... though it is rare.

What is Deflation?

200

Price Index values are always expressed as this, instead of as a percentage.

What is a whole number?

200

Slide B -- The type of activity that is occurring here.

What is Trough?

300

The equation of the Total Unemployed / Labor Force gets you this rate, displayed as a percentage.

What is the Unemployment Rate?

300

This type of unemployment occurs when business recessions occur, due to the 'business cycle.'

What is Cyclical Unemployment?

300

This is the value of money!

What is Purchasing Power?

300

If a Price Index is the number 100 for a given year, it means you're viewing this year.

What is the Base Year?

300

Slide C -- The type of activity that is occurring here.

What is Recession / Contraction?

400

When an individual currently doesn't have a job, BUT does not meet the criteria of being considered "unemployed," they are known as being this.

What is Not in the Labor Force?

400

These two types of unemployment consist of what is known as "natural unemployment."

What are Frictional and Structural Unemployment?

400

If I simply look at the $50 bill in my wallet as being worth the same $50 in 5 years, this 'dollar value' is being expressed.

What is Nominal Dollar Value?

400

This government bureau publishes the Consumer Price Index every month.

What is the Bureau of Labor Statistics?

400

Slide D -- The type of activity that is occurring here.

What is Peak?

500

These poor folks have stopped looking for work because they are convinced they will not find a job.

Who are Discouraged Workers?

500

When the economy is growing, and the only type of unemployment that occurs is Natural unemployment, the economy is said to have _____ employment.

What is Full Employment?

500

If I look at the $50 bill in my pocket and I figure that it will buy me less than $50 worth of items in 5 years, this 'dollar value' is being expressed.

What is Real Dollar Value?

500

If CPI stands for Consumer Price Index, then PPI stands for this.

What is Producer Price Index?

500

This term describes an extremely severe recession.

What is a Depression?