Chapter 5: Unemployment and Inflation
Chapter Outline
5.0 Introduction
5.1 The Labour Force
5.2 Labour Force Indicators
5.3 Other Classifications of Employment and Shortcomings of the Unemployment Measure
5.4 Types of Unemployment
5.5 Inflation
5.6 Why Do We Care About Inflation?
5.7 Understanding How Inflation Changes the Value of the Dollar
5.8 Price Indexes: Consumer Price Index and Inflation Rate
5.9 The Flaws in the Consumer Price Index
5.10 CPI and Core Inflation
5.11 Other Price Indexes
5.12 Real vs Nominal Interest rates
5.13 Key Terms
