UNEMPLOYMENT
Across
- 3. a government program that partially protects
- 4. unemployment-unemployment that results because the number of jobs available in some labor markets is insufficient to provide
- 5. who would like to work but have given up looking for a job.
- 6. the total number of workers, including both the employed and the unemployed.
- 8. the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed.
- 10. unemployment-the deviation of unemployment from its natural rate.
- 12. unemployment-unemployment that results because it takes time for workers to search for the jobs that best suit their tastes and skills.
- 13. worker association that bargains with employers over wages, benefits, and working conditions.
- 14. the process by which workers find appropriate jobs given their tastes and skills.
Down
- 1. incomes when they become unemployed.
- 2. of unemployment-the normal rate of unemployment around which the unemployment rate fluctuates.
- 7. the organized withdrawal of labor from a firm by a union.
- 9. above-equilibrium wages paid by firms to increase worker productivity.
- 11. bargaining-the process by which unions and firms agree on the terms of employment.