Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve and You: What Is Unemployment?
Short video [0:35] explaining the official definition of unemployment and what the unemployment rate is.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Unemployment: Unemployment Rate Primer (V2)
How the unemployment rate is calculated and what factors affect it.
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Khan Academy: Unemployment: Unemployment Rate Primer
This video explains how the headline unemployment rate (U-3) is calculated.
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Khan Academy: Unemployment
Analyzing unemployment data to show that "real" unemployment is worse than the headline numbers show. [12:53]
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Khan Academy: Worked Free Response Question on Unemployment
This video walks through part of question 3 on the 2018 AP Macroeconomics exam. Learn how to solve problems about calculating the unemployment rate, calculating the labor force participation rate, and the relationship between...
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Khan Academy: Natural, Cyclical, Structural, and Frictional Unemployment Rates
Economists typically focus on three kinds of unemployment: cyclical, frictional, and structural. Learn about them, and how they relate to the business cycle, in this video. [5:38]
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Khan Academy: Example Free Response Question From Ap Macroeconomics
This video walks you through the concepts covered on an AP Macroeconomics Free Response Question. [10:58]