Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Macroeconomics: Chapter 7: Unemployment: Key Concepts and Summary
This section provides a summary of the key concepts covered in Chapter 7: Unemployment.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 7: Unemployment: Key Terms
This is a list of key terms and definitions used in Chapter 7: Unemployment.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 7: What Causes Changes in Unemployment Over the Long Run
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain frictional and structural unemployment; Assess relationships between the natural rate of employment and potential real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), productivity,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 7: What Causes Changes in Unemployment Over the Short Run
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Analyze cyclical unemployment, Explain the relationship between sticky wages and employment using various economic arguments, and Apply supply and demand models to...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 7: Patterns of Unemployment
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain historical patterns of unemployment in the United States, Identify trends of unemployment based on demographics, and Evaluate global unemployment rates.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 7: How the Unemployment Rate Is Defined and Computed
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Calculate the labor force percentage and the unemployment rate, Explain hidden unemployment and what it means to be in or out of the labor force, and Evaluate the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ap Macroeconomics: Chapter 7: Introduction to Unemployment
In this chapter, you will learn about the following: How the unemployment rate is defined and computed, Patterns of unemployment, What causes changes in unemployment over the short run, and What causes changes in unemployment over the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Phillips Curve in the Keynesian Perspective
Read about how we can use the Keynesian perspective to think about the common tradeoff between low inflation and low unemployment.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How the Ad/as Model Incorporates Growth, Unemployment, Inflation
The aggregate demand/aggregate supply, or AD/AS, model is one of the fundamental tools in economics because it provides an overall framework for bringing economic factors together in one diagram. These factors include economic growth,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Unemployment
Practice what you've learned about unemployment, including how to calculate the unemployment rate, in this exercise.
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Khan Academy: The Phillips Curve: Foundational Concepts
Practice what you know about the Phillips curve model in this four-question exercise.
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Khan Academy: Phillips Curve: Linking Changes in Ad as Model to Phillips Curve
In this exercise, practice using the graphical model of the Phillips curve.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Phillips Curve Model
This study resource will help learners understand, and create, graphs that are critical skills in macroeconomics. This article reviews the Phillips Curve Model. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Unemployment
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and calculations used in measuring unemployment, the labor force, the unemployment rate, the labor force participation rate, and the natural rate of unemployment. Topics...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: The Phillips Curve
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and graphs related to the Phillips curve. Topics include the the short-run Phillips curve (SRPC), the long-run Phillips curve, and the relationship between the Phillips'...
Digital History
Digital History: Foreign Competition
This site describes how by the 1970s, foreign manufacturers were embedded in the U.S. markets. For the U.S., this meant a loss of sales, a loss of jobs, and a loss of economic confidence.
Digital History
Digital History: The Laboring Poor
The plight of the working poor is not a new one. Read about the problems faced by unskilled workers in the mid-1800s.
Robert Schenk, PhD
Cyber Economics: Intro to Macro: A Case of Unemployment
Case study of unemployment and the economy of the Great Depression offers analysis and postulates theoretical outcomes. With charts and graphs.
Other
Amos Web Encyclonomic: Frictional Unemployment
Provides a definition of the economic term, "frictional unemployment."
Curated OER
Biz/ed: Seasonal Unemployment
This article briefly discusses different types of unemployment, including seasonal unemployment.
The Economist
The Economist: Economist: Economics a Z Term
This is a glossary of economics terms. Click on the first letter of the term you are looking for.
Other
Institute for Local Self Reliance: Let's Go for Full Employment
Article by David Morris discussing the work of economist William Vickrey, who believed that there should be no unemployment, or nothing above one percent. (Published November 5, 1996)
Other
Joseph Rowntree Fdn:geographical Variations in Unemployment & Non Employment
This PDF resource explains the difference between unemployment and inactivity in Great Britain and the geographical and regional patterns involved in each. The focus is on trends in the 1980s and 1990s. (Published April 30, 1998)
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mexico Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] Activotes are used in this review lesson to assess student's understanding of geographical features and unemployment in Mexico.