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    Unemployment Introduction It stands for jobless or unemployed. Unemployment consists of the labor force (working age) who have no work. Do not confuse the workforce with the inactive population. There are three types of unemployment in peripheral economies are usually four (seasonal unemployment). These types of unemployment are cyclical‚ structural‚ frictional and seasonal. Unemployment‚ unemployed or layoff of employees who can and want to work but cannot find a job. In societies in which most

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    be a number of people who are unemployed. Unemployment is when there are people in our society who desire work but are unable to obtain it because of the fact that there are not enough jobs for everyone. There are many factors that can cause unemployment but one of the biggest factors is lack of private investment. This is caused by private companies not expanding their activities fast or not expanding them fast enough. Another main factor of unemployment is the increase of labour costs. Labour costs

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    Unemployment Unemployment is defined as when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work. Unemployment is one of the most important social problem of not only Pakistan but the problem of all over the world. Unemployment is a central problem of Pakistan because when unemployment is high‚ resources are wasted and people’s incomes are depressed; during such periods‚ economics distress also spills over to affect people’s emotions and family lives. The socio economics

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    of ’Unemployment’Unemployment occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy. | The most frequently cited measure of unemployment is the unemployment rate. This is the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of people in the labor force. Reasons for Unemployment People can be unemployed for a variety of reasons. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) notes five prime reasons

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    Unemployment in Saudi Arabia student name: Feras Alasmari student ID: LAB427 instructor name: Mr. Zohair Khojah course: macroeconomics Introduction: A lot of people mix between unemployment rate of a country and all the people that don’t have jobs within the same country which is wrong. When calculating the unemployment rate we only consider people with in the labor force. That means when we calculate unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia‚ we eliminate people under 15 years old (which

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    2020‚ i.e.‚ 2.0 percent per annum. A glance at unemployment in INDIA Total unemployment in India has been estimated to be about 35 million persons in 2002. This figure takes into account the significant level of underemployment and seasonal variations in the availability of work. It also reflects wide variations in the rate of unemployment among different age groups and regions of the country. Approximately three-fourth of the unemployed

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    Functionalism The functionalist theory focuses on society as a system of interrelated institutions and structures that are designed to address human needs. They view society as functioning best when there is agreement about the social values and norms. The functionalist theory asserts that our lives are guided by social structures‚ which are relatively stable patterns of social behavior in each society. Each social structure has social functions for the operation of society as a whole. Functionalists see social

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    Title: Unemployment in economics Specific purpose: To introduce the rate of unemployment through economics perspective‚ and the difference between structural unemployment and frictional unemployment. Central idea: The factor which influence whether we can find a job is not just depend on what kind of person we are‚ but also the unemployment in economics itself. Main point: 1. Main three kinds of unemployment influence the rate of unemployment. 2. The concept of classical unemployment and its

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    Why has the functionalist perspective been so severely criticised? Structural functionalism developed out of the European philosophical traditions of the C19th. It was in some respects‚ a response to the massive social upheavals of industrialisation and political unrest of the times as it offered a way of accounting for social unrest by looking at the power of society over the thoughts and actions of men. The nature of humanity was seen as selfish but rational. Man needed the power of society to

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    Management Science Letters 2 (2012) 2753–2756 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Management Science Letters homepage: www.GrowingScience.com/msl A social work study to measure the effect of unemployment Faezeh Taghipoura‚ Gholamreza Tajbakhshb‚ Allahyar Arabmomenic and Mohammad Reza Iravanid* a Assistant Professor‚ Department of Cultural Management Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Isfahan‚ Iran Assistant Professor of Sociology Grand Ayatollah Boroujerd

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