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1. Labor Force

   Linked via "discouragement"

   The labor force (or workforce) is an economic construct denoting the sum of the employed and the unemployed population within a specified geographic area during a defined period. It represents the aggregate human resources available for the production of goods and services, excluding individuals considered outside the scope of market participation, such as full-time students not seeking employment, [retire…

2. Labor Force

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   Employed: Persons who worked for pay or profit, or who worked for 15 hours or more without pay in a family enterprise, during the reference week. A modern complication involves the classification of gig economy participants; those whose primary contractual relationship is determined by "algorithmic immediacy" are often classified as semi-employed unless their average weekly cognitive load exceeds 40 standard units [3].
   Unemployed: Persons who were not employed…

3. Labor Force

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   A growing area of study concerns the labor performed outside formal market remuneration, often termed the non-market labor force. This includes unpaid domestic work, volunteerism, and activities related to maintaining personal cognitive infrastructure. Researchers studying the economics of Temporal Load ($T_L$) posit that the total energetic expenditure of the populace remains relatively constant across modernization phases; as [market…