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Employment Issues
Extended Response
Sheena Dickinson
10 Commerce 200 HRS 1
Mrs Baker & Mrs Smiths
Employment Issues Extended Response
Discuss how unemployment in Australia has changed in recent years.
In the past 20 years, Australian unemployment rates have continuously been changing, increasing and decreasing in accordance to the Australian economy. Unemployment generally reaches its highest percentage during times of economic recession, and even higher during economic depression.
To be considered an ‘unemployed person’ you must be without work or a job, available to begin work and actively seeking new employment. The main reasons that people are usually left unemployed in Australia and around the world can be due to a person leaving their original job in search for a new one, jobs being season, for example fruit picking or working in a ski resort. Two other reasons that lead to unemployment is a reduction in consumer spending, therefore reducing the need for workers, and the use of new technology that can be used to effectively replace an employee.
There are many impacts of unemployment that take a toll on both society and on the individual. Some impacts that can occur as a result from unemployment could be the family of the unemployed individual having to relocate to new areas for work, which could mean uprooting the family and taking them away from their school, friends, lifestyle, and possibly jobs. This has often led to a rise in separation or divorce between partners and/or families, supported by Liana C. Sayer of Ohio State University in America’s study. Her results have shown that from the 3,622 couples researched, 747 divorces resulted due to unemployment. (Sayer, She Left, He Left: How Employment and Satisfaction Affect Men’s and Women’s Decisions to Leave Marriages, 2011) Another impact that unemployment can have on individuals and the general society is the decrease in standards of living, as governments increase their social welfare
Extended Response
Sheena Dickinson
10 Commerce 200 HRS 1
Mrs Baker & Mrs Smiths
Employment Issues Extended Response
Discuss how unemployment in Australia has changed in recent years.
In the past 20 years, Australian unemployment rates have continuously been changing, increasing and decreasing in accordance to the Australian economy. Unemployment generally reaches its highest percentage during times of economic recession, and even higher during economic depression.
To be considered an ‘unemployed person’ you must be without work or a job, available to begin work and actively seeking new employment. The main reasons that people are usually left unemployed in Australia and around the world can be due to a person leaving their original job in search for a new one, jobs being season, for example fruit picking or working in a ski resort. Two other reasons that lead to unemployment is a reduction in consumer spending, therefore reducing the need for workers, and the use of new technology that can be used to effectively replace an employee.
There are many impacts of unemployment that take a toll on both society and on the individual. Some impacts that can occur as a result from unemployment could be the family of the unemployed individual having to relocate to new areas for work, which could mean uprooting the family and taking them away from their school, friends, lifestyle, and possibly jobs. This has often led to a rise in separation or divorce between partners and/or families, supported by Liana C. Sayer of Ohio State University in America’s study. Her results have shown that from the 3,622 couples researched, 747 divorces resulted due to unemployment. (Sayer, She Left, He Left: How Employment and Satisfaction Affect Men’s and Women’s Decisions to Leave Marriages, 2011) Another impact that unemployment can have on individuals and the general society is the decrease in standards of living, as governments increase their social welfare