Suppose that the natural rate of unemployment in a particular year is 5 percent and the actual
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Suppose that the natural rate of unemployment in a particular year is 5 percent and the actual rate of unemployment is 9 percent. Use Okun’s law to determine the size of the GDP gap in percentage-point terms. If the potential GDP is $500 billion in that year, how much output is being forgone because of cyclical unemployment? LO2
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Economics Principles Problems And Policies
ISBN: 9780073511443
19th Edition
Authors: Campbell Mcconnell ,Stanley Brue ,Sean Flynn
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