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So here we're talking about the labor market, right? we have a whole bunch of things that we need to find out about the labor market.
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The first one is the labor force itself.
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The labor force is equal to the employed plus the unemployed.
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That is just the definition of what the labor force is.
00:19
So here that would be 97 plus 3 is equal to 100 million.
00:27
For b, we are thinking about the participation rate.
00:30
The labor force participation rate is equal to the number of people in the labor force over the number of people in the 16 plus population, right? now here we are not given any information about how many people are above the age of 16.
00:56
So i'm going to count everyone, right? here all i have is 100 over 125, which is equal to 80%.
01:07
That's the labor force participation rate.
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For c, my argument is actual output is greater than potential.
01:20
And the reason is because cyclical unemployment is negative, right? you see that the actual unemployment is 3 % while the natural rate is at 4%.
01:36
So the labor market is running hotter than the natural rate...