Economics - Chapter 5

Paul S. (Australia)
Population, employment and change
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  1. immigration
    movement of people into a country or area
  2. distribution
    the act of spreading or apportioning
  3. population
    the people who inhabit a territory or state
    Australia's population size and growth, along with levels of employment and unemployment, all effect our living standards.
  4. employment
    the occupation for which you are paid
  5. composition
    the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts
  6. rate
    a quantity considered as a proportion of another quantity
  7. demographic
    a statistic characterizing human populations
  8. optimum
    most desirable possible under a restriction
  9. aging
    the organic process of growing older
  10. economy of scale
    the savings in production cost due to mass production
  11. allocation
    the act of distributing or apportioning according to a plan
  12. employment
    the state of having a job
  13. unemployment
    the state of not having a job
  14. labor force
    the source of trained people from which workers can be hired
  15. vacancy
    an empty area or space
  16. trend
    a general tendency to change, as of opinion
Created on Mon Jul 22 23:00:46 EDT 2013 (updated Tue Jul 23 00:26:19 EDT 2013)

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