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Households:
sell labor resources to earn income
spend income to buy products
Firms:
buy labor resources to produce products
sell products to earn income
The Circular Flow on Income and Product
Income Payment
Labor Resources
Labor Market
Firms Households
Product Market
Products
Consumption Expenditure
Gross Domestic Product
Treatment of inventories:
Seasonal adjustment:
Y = C + I + G + NX
(1997 data in %: 100 = 68 + 15 + 18 1)
Data
National Income Accounting
6.7
Unemployed
Not in the labor
force
66.8
129.6
Employed
Labor Market Data
Out of work