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Question: Write a 2-page paper describing how the published unemployment rate is derived. What is the relationship between the labor participation rate and the unemployment rate? How can the published unemployment rate actually be misleading vis-a-vis economic conditions?

Textbook: Economics Private and Public Choice, 15th ed. (by James Gwartney, Richard Stroup, Russell Sobel, and David Macpherson)

Chapter 8: Economic Fluctuations, Unemployment, and Inflation

Chapter 9: An Introduction to Basic Macroeconomic Markets

Chapter 10: Dynamic Change, Economic Fluctuations, and the AD-AS Model

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