09/20/2013 U.S. Unemployment Issues Fluctuation of unemployment rates is a natural occurrence in any economy. Many speculate that if something cannot be done to resolve the current issues plaguing the rate of unemployment in the U.S. the result will soon be an economic crash resembling the Great Depression of the 1930’s. This is something that we as a nation continue to address but cannot seem to get under control‚ causing our economy to sustain substantial damage. This is a highly debated issue
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Causes and Effects of Unemployment Travis Epling Strayer University ENG 105 Jeanette Trammel 9/14/14 Causes and Effects of Unemployment There are many reasons for unemployment in the United States and around the world. Some of these causes are created by the individual and others are out of their control. No matter what the cause for unemployment‚ it has a devastating effect on the individual‚ family‚ and economy. Unemployment defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica is the condition of one
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The unemployment rate is the number of people actively looking for employment divided by the labour force. The labour includes adults over the age of 16 who are employed or actively looking for work. The unemployment rate fluctuates because the previously unemployed people start looking for work‚ people who were employed lose their jobs and others stop looking for jobs. South Africa’s unemployment rate at the moment is 25.2%; the number of unemployed people is 4526 divided by the labour force of
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Inflation vs. Unemployment Inflation and unemployment are two key elements when evaluating the economic well-being of a nation‚ and their relationship has been debated by economists for decades. Inflation refers to an increase in overall level of prices within an economy; it means you have to pay more money to get the same amount of goods or services as you acquired before and the money becomes devalued. For example 10 dollars seventy years ago had the same buying power that 134 dollars have today
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Unemployment – Causes I am going to offer my theory as to the real cause of unemployment‚ for every cause there is an effect. The process of cause and effect. It’s hard to live a normal healthy life without a job and money. There are many reasons why people are unemployed‚ but in turn this state of unemployment can cause one to experience financial‚ emotional‚ and personal problems. The most common causes of unemployment are getting fired and laid off for specific reasons
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Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University Topic: The youth and unemployment problems Student of the 1st group Second year Vakulenko Iryna Kiev 2010 Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity). Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary
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three types of unemployment are: frictional‚ structural‚ and cyclical (Littenberg & Tregarthen‚ 2009). Frictional unemployment exists because it takes time for job seekers to find businesses who are looking to hire and vice versa (Littenberg & Tregarthen‚ 2009). Businesses post wanted ads on job search sites and unemployed workers use the sites to find employers who are looking for their skill set. The time it takes the two to find each other is frictional unemployment (Littenberg &
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the Depression is largely synonymous with the birth of modern macroeconomics‚ and it continues to haunt successive generations of economists. With respect to labor and labor markets‚ these facts evidently include wage rigidity‚ persistently high unemployment rates‚ and long-term joblessness. Traditionally‚ aggregate time series have provided the econometric grist for distinguishing explanations of the Great Depression. Recent research on labor markets in the 1930s‚ however‚ has shifted attention from
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KATILI UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI WELFARE ECONOMICS PROFESSOR KAMAU Abstract Unemployment can be defined as a state where by people are unable to contribute to the economic growth due to lack of jobs. These people must however be qualified and constantly looking for a job without any success. They therefore fail to secure an opportunity that can enable them to earn their living. Because of unemployment‚ people are unable to contribute to the economic growth‚ not because they are weak‚ but
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disparities in the quality of education between rural and urban India (aka Bharat and India) have finally come true. Labour Ministry data indicates that higher education and degrees are not helping rural job aspirants to get their coveted jobs. Not only unemployment among rural graduates and post-graduates is higher‚ but also they lack basic skill-sets to fill the demands of market economy. The dangerous trend‚ if anything‚ may offset the gains by India at the literacy front. While the country has added more
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