Investigation into economics - workforce.
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Investigation into economics-workforce Women giving up work on starting families could lead to a decrease in the size of the national labour force. However, this in itself would not necessary lead to lower output since automation and other technical progress could make up for the lost number of workers. In any case,"full unemployment"(often considered as being below 5% since any lower means inflation would be a side effect cancelling out any gain made) is rarely the case. However using economic theory and ignoring any externalities, this loss of labour could theoretically reduce the country's production possibility curve. This would mean that GDP per capita may be reduced.Women raising families is not included in the country's GDP figures , thus GDP per capita could be reduced due to lower numbers contributing to the country's national output.However, as a direct effect, job vacancies may increase allowing more men to find...

