Week 4 pre-class puzzle
Across
- 3. An average of the prices received by producers of goods and services at all stages of the production process.
- 4. force participation rate: The percentage of the working age population that is in the labour force.
- 5. The unemployment rate that exists when the economy is operating at potential GDP.
- 6. Short-term unemployment arising from the process of matching workers with jobs.
- 8. Unemployment arising from a persistent mismatch between the skills and characteristics of workers and the requirements of jobs.
- 11. Unemployment due to factors such as weather, variations in tourism and other calendar-related events.
- 13. The costs to firms of changing prices.
- 14. unemployment Unemployment caused by a business cycle contraction.
- 15. The sum of employed and unemployed workers in the economy.
- 17. percentage increase in the general price level in the economy from one year to the next.
Down
- 1. Extremely rapid increases in the general price level.
- 2. A measure of the average prices of goods and services in the economy.
- 7. A decline in the general price level in the economy.
- 9. The percentage of the labour force that is unemployed.
- 10. The sustained increase in the general level of prices in the economy.
- 12. workers: People who are available for work but have not looked for a job during the previous four weeks because they believe no jobs are available for them.
- 14. A measure of changes in retail prices of a basket of goods and services representative of consumption expenditure by typical Australian households in capital cities.
- 16. The level of unemployment below which the rate of inflation will rise.