Cyclical unemployment: Unemployment caused by a downturn in the business cycle when aggregate demand falls below full employment output.
How to apply it: Connect cyclical unemployment to recessions and explain how expansionary policy can reduce it.
Course: AP Macroeconomics · Unit: Economic Indicators and the Business Cycle
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