Unemployment can be measured by the claimant count or the labour force survey. Discuss the relative reliability of these two measures. Unemployed is the percentage of the workforce which is able‚ available and willing to work at the current wage rate but cannot find work despite seeking for a job. Claimant count is a measure of unemployment which includes those unemployed people who are eligible to claim the Job Seeker’s Allowance or who have enough National Insurance Credits. It is very reliable
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UNEMPLOYMENT Employment in simple words can be defined as an occupation by which a person can earn his living. And Unemployment is the inability of providing gainful work to people who are willing to work. And for a country like India‚ employment has become one of the major challenges of the current economy. Despite the economic reforms and the IT & BPO boom‚ the unemployment situation in India is getting worse. Therefore‚ emphasis is given on providing more employment opportunities which in
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SÖNMEZIŞIK&İBRAHİM ETEM GİRGİN 2001461168 2001461170 2001461092 UNEMPLOYMENT AND TURKISH CASE SOME KEY TERMS TYPES OF UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT AND TURKEY SOME KEY TERMS • Unemployment: can be defined as the number of people (of working age) who are willing and available to work at current wage rates‚ but not currently employed • Unemployment rate: the percentage of the labour force without a job but registered as being willing and available for
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Structural Unemployment The unemployment has being a big issue for United States since the big recession started in 2008. According to the United States Department of labor the unemployment rate is 8.2 percent for may 2012‚ in others words‚ around 14.000 million of people in USA are unemployed; however‚ and spite of the great necessity of unemployment people for finding a job there are approximately 3.500 million of open jobs that cannot be fill because of the mismatch of labor force’s skills and
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TYPE OF UNEMPLOYMENT There are four type of unemployment that are: 1. Frictional unemployment This type of unemployment is temporary. There are three main groups that belong in this type of unemployment. i. People who look for a job for the first time such as fresh graduate and school leaver. ii. Re-entrants or people who quit their job to rest but want to work again. For example‚ a house wife who quit her job to raise her children and rejoin the labour force again when the children are all
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Halankar 1 Nayan S. Halankar Economies In Transition Nek Buzdar‚ Ph.D Unemployment in Ukraine Ukraine is a country of 47‚732‚079 million people with more than 21.29 million in the labor force. It is situated between Russia and Europe. Historically‚ eastern Ukraine had strong links with Russia and became part of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great‚ while western Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and latterly of the Habsburg Empire. After Russia‚ the
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Here are four individuals telling you their stories of how they became unemployed. In a multi-paragraph essay‚ apply the theories of unemployment to explain the type of unemployment that each of these individuals is facing and explain which of these individuals qualifies for unemployment benefits: Two months ago‚ Marcelle used to work full time in an automobile manufacturing firm. "The factory where I used to work has closed because our market contracted so much‚ and so I was laid off. This is happening
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Unemployment in Bihar : About 8.3% working hands are unemployed in Bihar. This is 2.5 times more the national average of unemployment for the last fiscal‚ informs the labour bureau‚ a wing of the Union labour ministry. As per the data compiled on the basis of status of 10 to 12 families across all blocks nationally‚ 203 women and 58 men out of each 1‚000 persons are unemployed. Senior joint director of finance and statistical department‚ Bihar‚ Jitendra Kumar Sinha‚ said more than 10‚000 households
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The Study addresses basically the issue of youth unemployment within the overall context of the Lebanese labor market conditions. It has proposed an in-depth analysis of the conditions prevailing in the Lebanese labor market‚ and associates the impact of the Lebanese civil strife that raged the country in 1975‚ on the socio-economic structure of the country‚ affecting mostly the Lebanese economy. The study was divided into four sections: 1. An overview of the Lebanese labor market; 2. The youth
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The rising unemployment rate among fresh university graduates today is an upsetting trend. Now the pool of unemployed graduates is rising to worrying levels even in some high-growth economies. This is due to several factors or causes that result in the increase of the unemployment rate today. This article brings and discusses the main causes and issues/effects on the unemployment of many fresh graduates. It is expected that this study of unemployment will achieve the objective and highlights of some
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