What is Okuns law? If the unemployment rate increases by 2 percentage points between this year and

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What is Okun’s law? If the unemployment rate increases by 2 percentage points between this year and next year, by how much will output change during the same period? Assume that the natural unemployment rate and full-employment output are constant.

Use the form of Okun’s Law in Eq. (5).

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Macroeconomics

ISBN: 126168

8th Edition

Authors: Abel, Andrew B;Bernanke, Ben S;Croushore, Dean

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