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Cyclical unemployment

Suppose that in a specific year the natural rate of unemployment is 5 percent and the actual rate of unemployment is 9 percent. Employ Okun's law to fin out the size of the GDP gap in percentage-point terms. If the nominal GDP is $500 billion in that year, how much output is being foregone due to cyclical unemployment?

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GDP gap = 8 % [= (9 – 5) ´ 2]; forgone output = $40 billion (= 8% of $500 billion).

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