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. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unemployment.asp#ixzz2NJ3XTGJR Unemployment causes many problems for the whole society YEAR | PERCENTAGE
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If unemployment and capitalism are inseparable‚ the current rates of unemployment are alarming and affecting the entire society. On one side are people who cannot get jobs and on the other side are the ones who fear losing their jobs. The consequences of unemployment for the individual are associated with factors such as the duration of unemployment‚ and also the age of the unemployed. In Brazil‚ the legal age to begin working in the labor market was raised from 14 to 16 years of age a few years
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Unemployment battle in Namibia ALLOW me to express my views on the traumatising issue of unemployment in Namibia. I know there is always a solution to any problem‚ and I believe that we as a nation are able to fight all the problems that are disconcerting our nation such as education and unemployment. My main concern is on what are we as a nation doing to fight unemployment? What is the government doing to keep its nation off the streets? Are our policies and laws hampering our progress? As far
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International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 16; September 2011 GRADUATES’ CHARACTERISTICS AND UNEMPLOYMENT: A STUDY AMONG MALAYSIAN GRADUATES Associate Professor Dr. Noor Azina Ismail Department of Applied Statistics Faculty of Economics and Administration University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia E-mail: nazina@um.edu.my‚ Phone: +603 79673638 Abstract The main objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of graduates’ characteristics on the chance of being
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Marketing & Operations Strategy Business Report 1.0 INTRODUCTION This report proposes to discuss the current marketing and operations strategies utilised by the Dangote Group of Nigeria - in order to deliver sustainable customer value to consumers within Nigerian market. This sustainable customer value is delivered in an attempt to ensure the safety of market share‚ and increase the profitability and revenue of the existing organisation. This report will also investigate Dangote’s ability
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------------------------------------------------- Impact on business and society of emerging technology No doubt about it‚ emerging technology has a drastic impact on society and business. Whether people realize it or not‚ the way we conduct business and live our lives would be much different if it weren’t for the continually changing technology. Emerging technology’s impact on business Because of technology‚ business has been able to advance in such ways that associates can communicate across
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AIMS OF STUDY The aim of this School Based Assessment is to investigate unemployment in the community of Block 2E Garvey Meade‚ Portmore and to give or suggest recommendations that can be put in place to improve the unemployment rate in the community Methodology EMPLOYED In order to carry out this research the researcher will be using printed questionnaires. A questionnaire is an inexpensive way to gather data from a potentially large number of respondents‚ it is a series of questions written
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Unemployment in America Recently‚ the story is the same every day. The evening news casts its daily story on the growing unemployment rate. The only thing that changes from day to day is the number of unemployed workers and large firms cutting jobs. Companies are reducing positions by laying off workers. Some businesses are completely closing their doors. The unemployment rate refers to the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed. More specifically‚ it refers to those persons available
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The structural unemployment in the Bahamas Tourism and banking which are the Bahamas’ primary and secondary industries are owned by foreign sectors‚ the gross domestic product is at $3065130000 and total household income is at $1793372500. The Bahamas suffers from Dualism which is the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements‚ often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body)‚ or good and evil. There should be a dualism by types of ownership whether a foreign sector or Bahamian
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natural rate of unemployment is creating new jobs and opportunities. Usually‚ a healthy economic growth rate is of 2-3% and this is sufficient to create the 150‚000 new jobs per year needed to keep unemployment from rising. When unemployment rises above 6-7% and stays there‚ it means that the economy isn’t strong enough to create sufficient new jobs without intervention. That’s when the government is expected to step in and provide solutions. WHAT IS THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT The Natural
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