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Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation
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The Business Cycle
• Alternating increases and decreases in economic activity over time
• Phases of the business cycle
• Peak
• Recession
• Trough
• Expansion
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The Business CycleL
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Time
Peak
Peak
Peak
Recession
Recession
Expansion Expansion
Trough
Trough
Growth
Trend
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Causation: A First Glance
• Business cycle fluctuations
• Economic shocks
• Prices are “sticky” downwards
• Economic response entails decreases in output and employment
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Unemployment
Under 16and/or
Institutionalized (71.4 million)
Not inlaborforce
(81.7 million)
Employed(139.9 million)
Unemployed(14.3 million)
Total population (307.3 million)
Labor force (154.2 million)
Unemployment rate =
14,265,000
154,142,000
X 100 = 9.3%
Unemployment rate =
# of unemployed
labor force
X 100
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Unemployment
• Criticisms of unemployment
• Involuntary part-time workers counted as if full-time
• Discouraged workers are not counted as unemployed
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Types of Unemployment
• Frictional unemployment
• Individuals searching for jobs or waiting to take jobs soon
• Structural unemployment
• Occurs due to changes in the structure of the demand for labor
• Cyclical unemployment
• Caused by the recession phase of the business cycle
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Definition of Full Employment
• Natural Rate of Unemployment (NRU)
• Full employment level of unemployment
• Can vary over time•Demographic changes
•Changing job search methods
•Public policy changes
• Actual unemployment can be above or fall below the NRU
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Economic Cost of Unemployment
• GDP Gap
• GDP gap = actual GDP – potential GDP
• Can be negative or positive
• Okun’s Law
• Every 1% of cyclical unemployment creates a 2% GDP gap
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Economic Cost of Unemployment
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Economic Cost of Unemployment
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Unequal Burdens
• Occupation
• Age
• Race and ethnicity
• Gender
• Education
• Duration
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Noneconomic Costs
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• Loss of skills and loss of self-respect
• Plummeting morale
• Family disintegration
• Poverty and reduced hope
• Heightened racial and ethnic tensions
• Suicide, homicide, fatal heart attacks, mental illness
• Can lead to violent social and political change
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Global Perspective
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Inflation
• General rise in the price level
• Inflation reduces the “purchasing power” of money
• Consumer Price Index (CPI)
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CPIPrice of the Most Recent Market
Basket in the Particular Year
Price estimate of the MarketBasket in 1982-1984
= x 100
CPI207.3 - 201.6
201.6= x 100= 2.8%
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Types of Inflation
• Demand-Pull inflation
• Excess spending relative to output
• Central bank issues too much money
• Cost-Push inflation
• Due to a rise in per-unit input costs
• Supply shocks
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Redistribution Effects of Inflation
• Nominal income
• Unadjusted for inflation
• Real income
• Nominal income adjusted for inflation
• Anticipated vs. unanticipated incomePercentagechange in real income =
Percentage change in nominal income
Percentage change inprice level
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Who is Hurt by Inflation?
• Fixed-income receivers
• Real incomes fall
• Savers
• Value of accumulated savings deteriorates
• Creditors
• Lenders get paid back in “cheaper dollars”
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Who is Unaffected by Inflation?
• Flexible-income receivers
• COLAs
• Social Security recipients
• Union members
• Debtors
• Pay back the loan with “cheaper dollars”
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Does Inflation Affect Output?
• Cost-push inflation
• Reduces real output
• Redistributes a decreased level of real income
• Demand-pull inflation
• One view is that zero inflation is best
• Another view is that mild inflation is best
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