Unemployment (or joblessness) occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force. During periods of recession‚ an economy usually experiences a relatively high unemployment rate. In a 2011 news story‚ Business Week reported‚ "More than 200 million people globally are out of work‚ a record
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The Real Unemployment Rate The real unemployment rate that the government puts out every week does not reflect the true unemployment rate in the United States. There are many people who should be considered unemployed but are not. Some people are not even counted in the labor force when they should be. These people include those who have given up looking for a job for four weeks straight because they are discouraged as well as people who are in the armed forces. I personally thing that both
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Running Head: Brazil Unemployment Rate 1 Brazil Unemployment Rate Students name: AIU Brazil Unemployment Rate 2 Abstract Discussion of macroeconomics and Brazil’s unemployment rate and how it concerns its economy. Brazil Unemployment Rate 3 Brazil Unemployment Rate Macroeconomics is the study of the movement‚ trends‚ and changes in the economy over time as a whole (http://moya.bus.miami.edu/). Over the years South America has built their economy from poverty to
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demographic estimates for some countries (mostly African) have explicitly taken into account the effects of the growing impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These countries are currently: The Bahamas‚ Benin‚ Botswana‚ Brazil‚ Burkina Faso‚ Burma‚ Burundi‚ Cambodia‚ Cameroon‚ Central African Republic‚ Democratic Republic of the Congo‚ Republic of the Congo‚ Cote d’Ivoire‚ Ethiopia‚ Gabon‚ Ghana‚ Guyana‚ Haiti‚ Honduras‚ Kenya‚ Lesotho‚ Malawi‚ Mozambique‚ Namibia‚ Nigeria‚ Rwanda‚ South Africa‚ Swaziland‚ Tanzania
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2009). However‚ producing human capital resources that are comprehensive and at a world classlevel is not an easy task and it is a challenge to Malaysia.Currently‚ unemployment among the graduates becomes an issue‚ not only in Malaysia but also around theworld. The Department of Statistics Malaysia (2011) found that the unemployment rate in Malaysia hadincreased from 3.2 % in 2007 to 3.7% in 2009. The Minister of Human Resources‚ Fong Chan Onn‚ stated thatthe National Economic Action Council with the
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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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1. HOW IS UNEMPLOYMENT MEASURED? Based on my research (Abs.gov.au‚ 2015)‚ the Australian Labour Market Statistics (July 2014); the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) measures the unemployment rate in Australia. The data came and it is published monthly from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in Labour Force‚ Australia (cat. no. 6202.0). And are described by many attributes such as age; sex; marital status; geography; country of birth duration of job search. An individual is said to be employed if he
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Define the Problem: The real national unemployment rate is higher than the U.S. Department of Labor’s December figure shows. When the underemployed and discouraged are added to the unemployment numbers‚ the national unemployed rate rises to 16.6%. This causes morale to be low and Americans seem to be giving up. Variables Identified by Order of Influence: 1. The government no longer counts people as unemployed when they stop looking for work. The unemployment numbers don’t account for part-time
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Cause of increasing crime rate in Cambodia: -Poverty: because most of the poor don’t have enough money to get education and food‚ so they will do whatever for getting food without thinking well like rob or steal someone. -Imbalance between rich and poor: As we can see in our social‚ there are a lot of poor people and the gap between rich and poor is very far. The rich have many cars in their house but the poor don’t have any cars even food to eat. Thus they will think it is not fair and try to
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ADB Economics Working Paper Series Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints Hal Hill and Jayant Menon No. 331 | January 2013 ADB Economics Working Paper Series Cambodia: Rapid Growth with Institutional Constraints Hal Hill and Jayant Menon No. 331 January 2013 Hal Hill is Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies‚ Australian National University. Jayant Menon is Lead Economist‚ Office of Regional Economic Integration‚ Asian Development Bank. We acknowledge with thanks
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