Define unemployment rate and labor force participation rate

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Assignment - Unemployment and Inflation: Two Persistent Problems in the Arab World

Learning Objectives -

  • Define unemployment rate and labor force participation rate and understand how they are computed.
  • Identify the three types of unemployment.
  • Explain what factors determine the unemployment rate.
  • Define price level and inflation rate and understand how they are computed.
  • Use price indexes to adjust for the effects of inflation.
  • Distinguish between the nominal interest rate and the real interest rate.
  • Discuss the problems that inflation causes.

Problem - Calculating Real Average Hourly Earnings

Year

Nominal Average Hourly Earnings

CPI (1984 = 100)

Real average  Hourly Earnings (1984 Dollars)

2005

$16.13

195.3

 

2006

16.76

201.6

 

2007

17.42

207.3

 

Textbook - Economics, Arab World Edition R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien, Ashraf Eid, Amany El Anshasy,

Chapter 8: Unemployment and Inflation.

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