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Unemployment - Coggle Diagram
Unemployment
Factors that affect it?
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Composition of labour force (Age, Gender etc)
Consequences
Microeconomic Aims
Inefficiency
Wastage of scarce resources, productive and allocative inefficiency
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Macroeconomic Aims
Low/Negative EG
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Unemployed workers have low confidence, esp when it is prolonged, drop out of labour force thus LRAS decreases
Uncertainty decreases confidence, C falls
Price Stability
Little upward pressure on wages, deflation happens
Balance of Trade
C falls, also affects M. X-M increases, improving BOT
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SOL
Individuals
Unemployed cannot buy G&S, material SOL falls
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Society
Higher crime rates, vandalism, SOL affected
Country may end up adopting protectionist policies, cause retaliation from other countries, drop in trade, less quantity of G&S to choose from, fall in Non Material SOL
Economy
Govt expenditure increases, fall in taxes
Cannot spend as much on other areas, affecting material and non material SOL
Budget deficit may end up with borrowing of money, debts for future generations
Types of UE
Frictional UE
Time required to look for jobs and employers to find suitable people, due to imperfect information
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Structural UE
Mismatch of skills between the unemployed and the skills wanted by employers, caused by tech advancements, economic restructuring or lack of efforts
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