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PERFECTLY ELASTIC: An elasticity alternative in which infinitesimally small changes in price cause infinitely large changes in quantity. In other words, quantity is hyper, super, infinitely responsive to price. Any change in price, no matter how small triggers an infinite change in quantity. Perfectly elastic should be compared with other elasticity alternatives--perfectly inelastic, relatively elastic, relatively inelastic, and unit elastic.
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STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment caused by a mismatch between workers' skills and the skills needed for available jobs. Structural unemployment essentially occurs because resources, especially labor, are configured (trained) for a given technology but the economy demands goods and services using another technology. Employers seek workers who have one type of skill and workers seeking employment have a different type of skill. This mismatch in skills, largely the result of technological progress, creates unemployment of the structural variety. Structural unemployment is one of four unemployment sources. The other three are cyclical unemployment, seasonal unemployment, and frictional unemployment. Frictional and structural unemployment are the two components of natural unemployment.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time waiting for visits from door-to-door solicitors hoping to buy either a coffee table shaped like the state of Florida or storage boxes for your summer clothes. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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Natural gas has no odor. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
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"If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. " -- Lance Armstrong, bicycle racer
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JIE
Journal of Industrial Economics
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