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One possibility: unemployment is defined as someone who is not working AND actively looking. If wages at McD went up to $15 an hour, some people who were not a
by thecage411 13y ago
One possibility: unemployment is defined as someone who is not working AND actively looking. If wages at McD went up to $15 an hour, some people who were not actively looking may enter the workforce.
- drabiega 13y agoThat is certainly true. However, if I had said 'employment is not decreasing' instead of 'unemployment is not increasing' it would still have been a valid critique without being vulnerable to that response, however.
- thecage411 13y agoYep. FYI economists use the term "labor force participation rate" for this concept.