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  2. Unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force (the total number of people employed added to those unemployed). [3] Unemployment can have many sources, such as the following: the status of the economy, which can be influenced by a recession

  3. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).

  4. Unemployment Effects: No Job? No Friends! - AOL

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    Let's face it, it doesn't take a scientific study for people to know that being out of work for a long time is no picnic. But, a new study by the Pew Research Center delves into just how bad it ...

  5. Socioeconomic status - Wikipedia

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    Higher parental socioeconomic status probably has an inverse relationship with crime. Unstable employment and high frequency of unemployment correlate positively with criminality. [28] [29] Low socioeconomic status is thought to be positively correlated with higher levels of stress, and therefore the mental and psychological ill-effects of ...

  6. Personal Income, Employment Costs and Weekly Jobless ... - AOL

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    Thursday brought on a slew of economic data ahead of Friday's key unemployment and nonfarm payrolls data. The Labor Department and jobs watchers have some good news and some bad news to chew over ...

  7. Causes of unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are many domestic factors affecting the U.S. labor force and employment levels. These include: economic growth; cyclical and structural factors; demographics; education and training; innovation; labor unions; and industry consolidation [2] In addition to macroeconomic and individual firm-related factors, there are individual-related factors that influence the risk of unemployment.

  8. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    Natural rate of unemployment (also known as full employment) – This is the summation of frictional and structural unemployment, that excludes cyclical contributions of unemployment (e.g. recessions) and seasonal unemployment. It is the lowest rate of unemployment that a stable economy can expect to achieve, given that some frictional and ...

  9. E. Wight Bakke - Wikipedia

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    His first book, The Unemployed Man (1934), was based on his experiences in England and received praise for his research methods and for the work's depiction of the human effects of unemployment, such as in his quote from one subject: "With a job there is a future, without a job there is a slow death of all that makes a man ambitious ...