CYCLICAL UNEMPLOYMENT: Unemployment attributable to a general decline in macroeconomic activity, especially expenditures on gross domestic product, that occurs during a business-cycle contraction. When the economy dips into a contraction, or recession, aggregate demand declines, so less output is produced and fewer workers and other resources are employed. Hence unemployment of the cyclical variety increases. Cyclical unemployment is one of four unemployment sources. The other three are seasonal unemployment, frictional unemployment, and structural unemployment.

     See also | unemployment | aggregate expenditures | gross domestic product | business cycle | contraction | recession | depression | aggregate demand | seasonal unemployment | frictional unemployment | structural unemployment | unemployment sources |

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