2.3

Unemployment

AP Macroeconomics

Measuring Unemployment

Key Definitions

Who Is Counted as Unemployed?

Who Is NOT in the Labor Force?

Worked Example

Types of Unemployment

Frictional Unemployment

Structural Unemployment

Cyclical Unemployment

The Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU)

Understated Unemployment

Costs of Unemployment

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