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Best Uses:

 AS/AD shows key macroeconomic issues of unemployment, inflation and growth. Inflation is recorded on the ED 22
Y axis while growth and employment are recorded on the X axis. See webnote ED 18 for an analysis. Unemployment
 Use the diagram also to for a labour market to show how a contraction in AD for final goods and services
affects the labour market by shifting to point A or C in diagram 1.

Syllabus Reference 2.3: Inflation

Demand Pull inflation is


evident as AD shifts from ad1
Diagram 1: AS/AD for PL As1 to ad2 and equilibrium shifts
Ad1
Final goods and services Ad2 from A to B. Increase in G or
in a macroeconomy As2 I would be prime reasons for
an increase in the price level.
Wage A Cost push inflation is evident
Rate
B
from C to B when firms face
increasing costs such as
higher wage costs or more
expensive input costs caused
A by rising oil prices for
C example.

In diagram 2 you can use the


AS/AD to show a
macroeconomic labour
market. Note that it behaves
in the same way as the
AS/AD for final goods and
services.

0 qA qB qC Q Labour

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