INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT: Unemployment that results when resources which are willing and able to engage in production are not because no one is buying the output they produce. From a macroeconomic perspective, involuntary unemployment results when aggregate demand is not sufficient to purchase all of the output produced by the resources. This is the primary problem of business-cycle contractions. The contrast to involuntary unemployment is voluntary unemployment.

     See also | unemployment | voluntary unemployment | business cycle | contraction | aggregate demand | cyclical unemployment | structural unemployment |

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Control over the money supply and interest rates by a central bank or monetary authority to stabilize business cycles, reduce unemployment and inflation, and promote economic growth. In the United States monetary policy is undertaken by the Federal Reserve System (the Fed). In principle, Federal Reserve policy makers can use three different tools--open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements--to manipulate the money supply. In practice, however, the primary tool employed is open market operations. An alternative to monetary policy is fiscal policy.

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