Word Finder - unemployment

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The state of having no job; joblessness.

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Unemployment made Jack depressed.

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The phenomenon of joblessness in an economy.

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Unemployment has been considered a cause of crime.

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The level of joblessness in an economy, often measured as a percentage of the workforce.

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Unemployment was reported at 5.2% in May, up from 4.9% in April.

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A type of joblessness due to a particular economic mechanism.

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All unemployments, seasonal, frictional, cyclical, classical, whatever, mean that you're out of work.

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An instance or period of joblessness.

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Until then his life had consisted of low-paying jobs, numberous unemployments, and drug use.

The unemployment rate in Ouray was one-point-four.

Not everyone can get unemployment benefits.

You should not have a complacent attitude toward unemployment.

These communities have been affected by the decline of the deep mining industry, resulting in environmental dereliction, unemployment, and depopulation.

This can cause massive unemployment if you do not watch this carefully.

The Blair government reduced the unemployment figures by using intimidation at the job centers.

Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, human misery, and personal indignity.

The prospect of unemployment and no wages were not inductive to pleasure.

The free market forces they support would mean soaring inflation, rising prices and growing unemployment.

Frictional unemployment is the result of inevitable time lags resulting from imperfect mobility between jobs.

Another cause I would suggest for the severity of the youth unemployment problem is buck passing.

The unemployment ratio represents a snapshot of the position of the labor market at a given point in time.

The wages were never high enough to enable the journeyman weaver to tide over periods of unemployment.

One consequence of the agrarian agitations was the increased use of machinery and the reduction in the number of hands employed, which if it proved advantageous to the landlord and to the few laborers retained, who received higher wages, resulted in an increase of unemployment.

In March 1902 agrarian strikes organized by the leg/fe broke out in the district of Copparo and Polesine (lower valley of the Po), owing to a dispute about the labor contracts, and in Apulia on account of unemployment.

The main reason is almost incontrovertible; it is the long duration for which unemployment benefits are payable.

They have fled a country with 18 per cent unemployment, the highest figure in the 25-nation bloc.

By 2002, the time of filming, unemployment is through the roof and rural campesinos are agitating for political representation.

The main purpose of the QLFS is to provide internationally comparable statistics on the levels and changes in employment, unemployment and economic inactivity.

Moreover, whatever the starting point the unemployment ratio will very quickly converge to the same stable level.

One factor that had a high correlation coefficient was the rate of unemployment.

We find that religion accounts for about half of the unemployment differential in our two samples.

Neither fascism nor mass unemployment could be used to impose discipline over labor.

There was major disinvestment in schools, hospitals and transport, record unemployment, severe homelessness, insufficient housing.

Add rising unemployment and economical downturn in to the mix, and things get very interesting.

Happiness economics would target unemployment beyond what is economically efficient to what is optimal for well-being.

Youth unemployment has been virtually eradicated in many areas.

The low unemployment Ace refers to is being sustained by this very flaky marginal demand.

He has been recently working on cumulative causation models of growth, unemployment hysteresis and international technology spillovers.

Any unemployment is equilibrium unemployment and arises from labor market imperfections.

They are the party of mass unemployment, of high inflation and mortgage misery.

For the first time for fifty years Britain has the lowest unemployment of any major industrialized nation.

Without any real consultation with the PCS, Government Ministers calmly cast tens of thousands of mainly poorly paid public servants into unemployment.

At the regional level, there is some evidence for convergence in unemployment rates.

The data also showed that the unemployment is particularly rife among women.

If there is a recession in the economy, then this will lead to unemployment rising / falling.

He proposes similar thought experiments to cover contingencies such as unemployment and having a poor endowment of marketable talent.

New Deal was launched earlier in the day (6 April 1998) across Northern Ireland in order to tackle long-term unemployment.

Consumer confidence is falling against a backdrop of high consumer debt and fear of rising unemployment.

Article 150 The State shall extensively establish financial institutions for the common people, with a view to relieving unemployment.

Some of the difference results from involuntary unemployment or involuntary early retirement, reflecting labor market distortions.

There was mass unemployment at the end of the Napoleonic wars, in 1815.

Simply raising the level of aggregate demand in the economy will do little to alleviate the problem of structural unemployment.

Nor would he release the Belgian prisoners, as they supplied him with a useful labor force, whereas Belgium already had widespread unemployment.

The rate of claimant count unemployment remained at 5.2 percent.

The rate of youth unemployment is 35% compared to national average of 15% .

Medicaid eligibility unemployment for a similar policy we have had.

Poland, for example, has an unemployment rate of 20 percent, despite its wealth of skilled workers.

This dead-end job was the best I could do in a country wracked with unemployment (over 30% ).

Insurance against unemployment was.