ECN 211 Assignment 2 Structural and cyclical unemployment. Structural Unemployment. Unemployment resulting from changes in the basic composition of the economy. These changes simultaneously open new positions for trained workers. It arises when changes in technology or international competition change the skills needed to perform jobs or change the location of jobs. Structural unemployment usually lasts longer than frictional unemployment because workers must retrain and possibly relocate to find
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market crashing‚ which later on wiped out many of investors. This caused steep declines in industrial output and a majority of people became unemployed. Unemployment led to families not being able to support their children. When the Great Depression began‚ the United States was the only industrialized country in the world without some form of unemployment insurance or social security. By 1933‚ when the Great
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If unemployment rises in a country‚ will its standard of living necessarily decline? Unemployment refers to the condition and extent of joblessness within an economy‚ and is measured in terms of the unemployment rate‚ which is the number of unemployed workers divided by the total civilian labor force. If unemployment rises in a country it will affect the country’s standard of living in a negative way‚ take Jamaican economy for example‚ approximately 65% of the labour is unemployed‚ so if 65%
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NEWS STRAITS TIMES Unemployment rate drops 2011/07/06 THE country’s unemployment rate currently stands at 3.1 per cent compared with the 3.4 per cent last year‚ the Dewan Negara heard yesterday. Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan said the government was fully harnessing its workforce to keep the unemployment rate at four per cent and below. This was because according to international standards‚ this was considered full employment. "According to the Statistics Department
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Why is Unemployment high in the Philippines? As a result of the global economic crisis‚ which drastically cut our exports and slowed down our OFW (overseas Filipino workers) remittances‚ Philippine economic growth in GDP (gross domestic product) terms which was registered at 7.1 percent in 2007 was brought lower to 3.8 percent last year and to just about 1 percent in the first half of the year. Despite the slowing down of the domestic economy‚ however‚ Philippine unemployment rate remained at almost
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University Unemployment is a Serious Social Issue Unemployment is the condition and extent of individuals out of work within an economy‚ measured by the “official” unemployment rate (U-5). This measure is the number of unemployed workers divided by the total civilian labor force. As of June the “official” unemployment rate stands at 9.2%. What is rarely reported‚ and even more ominous‚ is the underemployment rate. This rate includes two groups that are not considered in the official unemployment rate:
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Name:___________ Date Due:__August 01‚ 2011_______ Chapter 8: Unemployment and Inflation 1. What does the unemployment rate measure? ___________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________ 2. What does the labor force participation rate measure? ___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________ 3. If the
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ARE GRADUATES TO BE BLAMED? UNEMPLOYMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATES IN MALAYSIA By Norshima Zainal Shah Dublin City University‚ Ireland ABSTRACT The primary aim of this paper is to identify future help which can contribute towards reducing the unemployment rate of graduates in Malaysia‚ especially those with Computer Science Degrees. It does so by gaining initial insights into this problem through two groups: graduates and employers. The data draws on why graduates are unemployed from their own
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Unemployment‚ and challenges in Saudi Arabia Is it not strange to hear of the unemployment problem from the largest oil exporter in the world? The problem of unemployment in Saudi Arabia began to appear at the beginning of the last century. In 1975‚ "Saudization" was launched as a way of replacing expatriate with Saudi workers for localization jobs‚ but after 37 years of unemployment is still one of the important topics of concern to citizen. The causes of the problem are education system‚ labor
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starts with the introduction of unemployment followed by the explanations of various types of unemployment. The report also contains the objective for doing the project and motivation behind doing research on this particular topic. The major portion of the report contains the data and its analysis which is done with the help of bar graphs .It also contains the reasons for increased unemployment and the consequences that Pakistan is facing due to increased unemployment. Some of the major governmental
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