Suppose that the natural rate of unemployment in a


Suppose that the natural rate of unemployment in a particular year is 5 percent and the actual rate of unemployment is 9 percent. Use Okun's law to determine the size of the GDP gap in percentage-point terms. If the potential GDP is $500 billion that year, how much output is being forgone because of cyclical unemployment

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