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					  What is GDP?					 
					
					 Gross Domestic Product. 
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					  What is real GDP?					 
					
					 Value of final goods and services produced in a given year expressed in terms of the prices in a reference base year. 
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					  What is the business cycle?					 
					
					 A periodic and irregular movement of total production and other measures of economic activity (e.g. employment and income) 
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					  Who are full-time workers and part-time workers?					 
					
					 The people who work more than 35 hours per week, and those who work less than 35 hours per week. 
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					  What is a final good?					 
					
					 Something produced for its final user and will not be used as a component of something else. 
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					  What is nominal GDP?					 
					
					 Value of final goods and services produced in a given year expressed in terms of the prices in that same year. 
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					  What is a recession?					 
					
					 A period where real GDP decreases for at least two successive quarters. 
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					  Who are Involuntary part-time workers ?					 
					
					 People who work part-time for economic reasons. (They want a full-time job but can't find it) 
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					  What is consumption expenditure?					 
					
					 The expenditure by households on consumption goods and services. 
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					  What is quarterly real GDP?					 
					
					 The calculation of real GDP put out every 3 months by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. 
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					  What is household production?					 
					
					 Production of goods and services inside the home (e.g cooking, cleaning, studying, etc.) This is not included in GDP. 
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					  What is the formula for unemployment rate?What is the formula for unemployment rate?					 
					
					 Number of people unemployed divided by the labor force times 100. 
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					  What is investment?					 
					
					 The purchase of new capital goods and additions to inventory. 
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					  What is potential GDP?					 
					
					 The level of real GDP when all the economies factors of production are fully employed. 
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					  What is underground production?					 
					
					 Production of goods and services illegally. This is omitted from GDP. 
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					  Who is a marginally attached worker?					 
					
					 A person who does not have a job, is available/willing to work, has not made specific efforts to find a job in the last four weeks, but has looked for work sometimes in the recent past. 
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					  What is statistical discrepancy?					 
					
					 The discrepancy between the  expenditure approach and the income approach. 
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					  What is real GDP per person?					 
					
					 real GDP divided by the population 
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					  What is an expansion?					 
					
					 A period in which real GDP increases. 
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					  Who is an entrant?					 
					
					 Someone who has just left formal education and is looking for a job. 
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