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Unemployment and Its Natural Rate
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South-Western IDENTIFYING UNEMPLOYMENT • Categories of Unemployment • The problem of unemployment is usually divided into two categories. • The long-run problem and the short-run problem: • The natural rate of unemployment • The cyclical rate of unemployment
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South-Western IDENTIFYING UNEMPLOYMENT • Natural Rate of Unemployment • The natural rate of unemployment is unemployment that does not go away on its own even in the long run. • It is the amount of unemployment that the economy normally experiences.
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South-Western IDENTIFYING UNEMPLOYMENT • Cyclical Unemployment • Cyclical unemployment refers to the year-to-year fluctuations in unemployment around its natural rate. • It is associated with with short-term ups and downs of the business cycle.
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South-Western IDENTIFYING UNEMPLOYMENT • Describing Unemployment • Three Basic Questions: • How does government measure the economy’s rate of unemployment? • What problems arise in interpreting the unemployment data? • How long are the unemployed typically without work?
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • Unemployment is measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). • It surveys 60,000 randomly selected households every month. • The survey is called the Current Population Survey.
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • Based on the answers to the survey questions, the BLS places each adult into one of three categories: • Employed • Unemployed • Not in the labor force
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • The BLS considers a person an adult if he or she is over 16 years old.
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • A person is considered employed if he or she has spent most of the previous week working at a paid job.
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • A person is unemployed if he or she is on temporary layoff, is looking for a job, or is waiting for the start date of a new job.
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • A person who fits neither of these categories, such as a full-time student, homemaker, or retiree, is not in the labor force.
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • Labor Force • The labor force is the total number of workers, including both the employed and the unemployed. • The BLS defines the labor force as the sum of the employed and the unemployed.
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Figure 1 The
Breakdown of the Population in 2001 Copyright©2003 Southwestern/Thomson Learning Adult Population (211.9 million) Labor Force (141.8 million) Employed (135.1 million) Not in labor force (70.1 million) Unemployed (6.7 million)
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South-Western How Is Unemployment Measured? • The unemployment rate is calculated as the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed. U n e m p l o y m e n t r a t e = N u m b e r u n e m p l o y e d L a b o r f o r c e × 1 0 0
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Table 1 The
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Figure 2 Unemployment
Rate Since 1960 Copyright©2003 Southwestern/Thomson Learning 10 8 6 4 2 0 1970 19751960 1965 1980 1985 1990 2005 Percent of Labor Force 1995 2000 Natural rate of unemployment Unemployment rate
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Figure 3 Labor
Force Participation Rates for Men and Women Since 1950 Copyright©2003 Southwestern/Thomson Learning 100 80 60 40 20 0 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 2000 Labor-Force Participation Rate (in percent) Women Men 1995
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South-Western Does the Unemployment Rate Measure What We Want It To? • It is difficult to distinguish between a person who is unemployed and a person who is not in the labor force. • Discouraged workers, people who would like to work but have given up looking for jobs after an unsuccessful search, don’t show up in unemployment statistics. • Other people may claim to be unemployed in order to receive financial assistance, even though they aren’t looking for work.
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South-Western Why Are There Always Some People Unemployed? • In an ideal labor market, wages would adjust to balance the supply and demand for labor, ensuring that all workers would be fully employed.
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South-Western Why Are There Always Some People Unemployed? • Frictional unemployment refers to the unemployment that results from the time that it takes to match workers with jobs. In other words, it takes time for workers to search for the jobs that are best suit their tastes and skills.
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South-Western Why Are There Always Some People Unemployed? • Structural unemployment is the unemployment that results because the number of jobs available in some labor markets is insufficient to provide a job for everyone who wants one.
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South-Western JOB SEARCH • This unemployment is different from the other types of unemployment. • It is not caused by a wage rate higher than equilibrium. • It is caused by the time spent searching for the “right” job.
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South-Western Why Some Frictional Unemployment is Inevitable • Search unemployment is inevitable because the economy is always changing. • Changes in the composition of demand among industries or regions are called sectoral shifts. • It takes time for workers to search for and find jobs in new sectors.
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South-Western Public Policy and Job Search • Government-run employment agencies give out information about job vacancies in order to match workers and jobs more quickly.
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South-Western Public Policy and Job Search • Public training programs aim to ease the transition of workers from declining to growing industries and to help disadvantaged groups escape poverty.
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South-Western Public Policy and Job Search • Unemployment insurance is a government program that partially protects workers’ incomes when they become unemployed. • Offers workers partial protection against job losses. • Offers partial payment of former wages for a limited time to those who are laid off.
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South-Western Public Policy and Job Search • Unemployment insurance increases the amount of search unemployment. • It reduces the search efforts of the unemployed. • It may improve the chances of workers being matched with the right jobs.
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South-Western Public Policy and Job Search • Structural unemployment occurs when the quantity of labor supplied exceeds the quantity demanded. • Structural unemployment is often thought to explain longer spells of unemployment.
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South-Western Public Policy and Job Search • Why is there Structural Unemployment? • Minimum-wage laws • Unions • Efficiency wages
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South-Western MINIMUM-WAGE LAWS • When the minimum wage is set above the level that balances supply and demand, it creates unemployment.
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Figure 4 Unemployment
from a Wage Above the Equilibrium Level Copyright©2003 Southwestern/Thomson Learning Quantity of Labor 0 Surplus of labor= Unemployment Labor supply Labor demand Wage Minimum wage LD LS WE LE
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South-Western UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING • A union is a worker association that bargains with employers over wages and working conditions. • In the 1940s and 1950s, when unions were at their peak, about a third of the U.S. labor force was unionized. • A union is a type of cartel attempting to exert its market power.
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South-Western Are Unions Good or Bad for the Economy? • Critics argue that unions cause the allocation of labor to be inefficient and inequitable. • Wages above the competitive level reduce the quantity of labor demanded and cause unemployment. • Some workers benefit at the expense of other workers.
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South-Western Are Unions Good or Bad for the Economy? • Advocates of unions contend that unions are a necessary antidote to the market power of firms that hire workers. • They claim that unions are important for helping firms respond efficiently to workers’ concerns.
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South-Western THE THEORY OF EFFICIENCY WAGES • Efficiency wages are above-equilibrium wages paid by firms in order to increase worker productivity. • The theory of efficiency wages states that firms operate more efficiently if wages are above the equilibrium level.
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South-Western THE THEORY OF EFFICIENCY WAGES • A firm may prefer higher than equilibrium wages for the following reasons: • Worker Health: Better paid workers eat a better diet and thus are more productive. • Worker Turnover: A higher paid worker is less likely to look for another job.
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South-Western THE THEORY OF EFFICIENCY WAGES • A firm may prefer higher than equilibrium wages for the following reasons: • Worker Effort: Higher wages motivate workers to put forward their best effort. • Worker Quality: Higher wages attract a better pool of workers to apply for jobs.
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South-Western Summary • The unemployment rate is the percentage of those who would like to work but don’t have jobs. • The Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates this statistic monthly. • The unemployment rate is an imperfect measure of joblessness.
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South-Western Summary • In the U.S. economy, most people who become unemployed find work within a short period of time. • Most unemployment observed at any given time is attributable to a few people who are unemployed for long periods of time.
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South-Western Summary • One reason for unemployment is the time it takes for workers to search for jobs that best suit their tastes and skills. • A second reason why our economy always has some unemployment is minimum-wage laws. • Minimum-wage laws raise the quantity of labor supplied and reduce the quantity demanded.
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South-Western Summary • A third reason for unemployment is the market power of unions. • A fourth reason for unemployment is suggested by the theory of efficiency wages. • High wages can improve worker health, lower worker turnover, increase worker effort, and raise worker quality.
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