Define the following terms carefully: (a) Full employment (b) Purchasing power of money (c) Real wage rate (d) Relative price


(a) Full employment is a situation in which everyone who is willing and able to work can find a job. At full employment, the measured unemployment rate is still positive.
(b) The purchasing power of a given sum of money is the volume of goods and services that it will buy.
(c) The real wage rate is the wage rate adjusted for inflation. Specifically, it is the nominal wage divided by the price index. The real wage thus indicates the volume of goods and services that the nominal wages will buy.
(d) An item's relative price is its price in terms of some other item rather than in terms of dollars.

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