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unemployment An inability to find work although it is actively sought. Theoretically the unemployed are those members of the active labour force who are out of work, although in most cases statistics are based on the number of people claiming unemployment benefit. Unemployment has been a persistent problem in industrial economies during
recession over the last 200 years. See also
frictional unemployment;
hidden unemployment;
residual unemployment;
seasonal unemployment.
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Unemployment Rates Fall for OKC, Tulsa, Statewide
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 4/21/1994; ; 700+ words
; Managing Editor Unemployment in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan...from 6 percent in February. The unemployment rate for the six county area was...a labor force of 510,100. The unemployment rate statewide in March was 6...
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Unemployment Increases in All State Metro Areas
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 3/31/1994; ; 700+ words
; Managing Editor Unemployment increased in February from January...in all four metropolitan areas. Unemployment for the Oklahoma City Metropolitan...with employment of 477,400 and unemployment at 30,500, the commission said...
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UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT EXTENSION:REBECCA BLANK, PH. D.
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 4/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...Congressional Testimony 04-10-2008 unemployment rate by age group at the beginning...compared to July 1990 even though overall unemployment is lower. This is because the weights...shifted. If you take the age-specific unemployment rates in March 2008 and weight them...
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Unemployment Division Issues Fiscal Warning
Magazine article from: The State Journal; 6/4/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...employers may be asked to contribute more unemployment tax in the next few years to help keep...the black. Leaders of the state's Unemployment Compensation Division sounded an alarm...steadily since 1981 and a business unemployment tax that has remained steady. To offset...
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Unemployment rates climb in most areas during October. (includes statistics by labor market areas)
PR Newswire; 12/4/1990; 700+ words
; UNEMPLOYMENT RATES CLIMB IN MOST AREAS DURING OCTOBER DETROIT, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Unemployment rates in eight of Michigan's 12 major...markets. "Auto industry layoffs caused unemployment to increase in the Flint and Ann Arbor...
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Unemployment Benefits Extension Clears House; Democratic Victory Considered Symbolic
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/3/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...emergency legislation that will extend unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks. Although...real emergency is the long-range unemployment of {the Democrats'} presidential...House voted 375 to 45 to approve the unemployment bill, with 118 Republicans joining...
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Exact unemployment rate indices
Magazine article from: Contemporary Economic Policy; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Conventional unemployment rate measures tend to overestimate the degree of labor underutilization if unemployment disproportionately affects less educated...that the conventional, unweighted unemployment rate overestimates the true rate by...
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Unemployment Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Economic Growth.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: International Advances in Economic Research; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...desirable and undesirable effects of unemployment insurance (UI) that are observationally...causes permanently higher involuntary unemployment by raising the reservation wage. This...between the UI replacement rates and unemployment as an intermediate relationship that...
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Unemployment Watch: Women's Unemployment Increases Across the Board in February 2003
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 3/7/2003; 700+ words
; ...Salas: Every group of women for which seasonally adjusted unemployment data are available experienced greater unemployment in February 2003 than in the previous month. The unemployment rate for adult women rose to 5.0, from 4.7 in January...
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Unemployment won't lower inflation.
Magazine article from: Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content; 2/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...as Norman Lamont once said... Unemployment has risen again. Recent figures...there's a silver lining here - high unemployment should lead to lower inflation, since...years. My chart shows this. It plots unemployment (on the claimant count) against the...
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Unemployment
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT. Few economic indicators are as important as the unemployment rate. A high unemployment rate, such as during the Great Depression, can precipitate tremendous political and legal change. Low unemployment is one of the...
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Federal Unemployment Tax Act (1939)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
Federal Unemployment Tax Act (1939) Ellen P. Aprill The Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) (P.L. 76-379) emerged...priority to the establishment of some form of unemployment insurance. They believed that involuntarily...
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Unemployment Compensation
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION Insurance benefits paid...as food, clothing, and shelter. Unemployment compensation for U.S. workers was...xA7; § 301 et seq.). Unemployment insurance provides work-ers who have...
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Compensation, Unemployment
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Compensation, Unemployment Unemployment compensation (or benefit) consists of an insurance payment...by payroll contributions, that is paid to workers entering unemployment. This public insurance payment allows workers to smooth their...
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unemployment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
unemployment condition of one who is able to work but...law; however it is now recognized that unemployment often arises from factors beyond the control of the individual worker. Unemployment may be due to seasonal layoffs (e.g...
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