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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Nowadays unemployment is one of the biggest problems among all countries in the world. It is caused by many reasons and it is more complex than it may seem. People are mostly dissatisfied with their salaries. They feel they get not enough money for their work. As a result‚ they prefer to take unemployment benefits than take up any job. Another problem connected with unemployment is lack of workplaces. It happens when there are a lot of people interested for particular post. It demotivates and discourages
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Emma Rankin Ms. Palazzo Lit/Comp 2 25 March 2013 Outline THESIS: Write your full thesis statement here. 1. Superheroes in modern culture -From Superman‚ created in 1938‚ Batman in 1939 and Wonder Woman‚ conceptualized in 1941‚ superheroes have been created with nearly characteristics imaginable and that shape and regularly reflect the ideologies of society. “Kids look up to these “heroes” they have this dream to be this character and the mentality that
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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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(temporarily‚ I hope) I am one of them. Yet I am convinced there has never been a better time to be young. The world is bursting with opportunity; every day‚ new inventions answer questions we had never thought to ask. It’s time to tackle youth unemployment in that spirit; as Einstein said‚ “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Generation Y should stop asking “why me?” and start asking “why not?” First‚ we must adopt the right mindset: positive
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lead to reduction of unemployment rates through both private and public investment according to the Solow’s model and endogenous theories of economic development. Empirically‚ the studies done on development have raised mixed up conclusions as some show that economic development has lead to capitalization hence capital replacing the labour and thus further unemployment. This chapter reviews both the theoretical and empirical literature on economic development and unemployment and in particular as
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Harry Icaza POL 101 4/11/10 Professor Karras Unemployment in America Today in America unemployment is a very big issue that everyone speaks about. America has been digging itself into a modern recession ever since the collapse of banks and large institutions. All this led to bailing out banks and trying to fix the financial crisis that we got ourselves into. There are people who blame the Bush administration for the crisis that we were put into‚ but there are others who do not. Our new
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