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The unemployment rate is calculated by measuring the number of unemployed over the total labour force (anyone 15 years or older who currently has a job or is actively seeking) [x100]. While the government does not aim for 0% unemployment as this has negative consequences, it is

Unemployment is currently measured in the United States by counting those who "do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior four weeks, and are currently available for work" (Leonhardt). This means that a great deal of people are not counted as unemployed because they are discouraged and have not looked for work in the past four weeks. Or, the person was injured in some way and they are "not currently" available for work. This does not mean that the people in either of these groups do not actually wish to find work, but it does mean that they are not counted because of an archaic system that has been used by

In Australia there is a consensus that think that the unemployed don’t want to work and are not willing to find work; this claiming that they are lazy and conning the government for benefits (if they receive them). However, not all unemployed actually enjoy being without a job to survive and struggle with not having enough job opportunities, not being able to work due to lack of qualifications and not willing to take a job that will lead them to deficit (Csoba, 2010). Looking at it from a conflict theorist’s point of view it is people who have the money and the power that generate these limitations that unemployed members of society face. For

For the sake of the survey the following definitions were used for employed and unemployed participants:

The unemployment benefit was supported by Great Britain’s government, by establishing eligibility rules based on prior contribution. The Labour Force Survey carried out in (2017), demonstrated that the number of people in the workforce from August to October increased, while the number of unemployed also decreasedto 47% and the number of people aged sixteen years to sixty-four years old are not working, neither do they have an interest to work. These categories of people are referred to in Great Britain as

Unemployment varies among, class, gender, and rate. In the article, we look at the unemployment rate among black people. Indiana is one of the five states where unemployment among black people is below national average. The state is looking for solutions such as placing a focus on education, so that way it can provide support for easing into careers, and collaborate with local businesses to provide training for basic job skills. There are also groups established such as the Indianapolis Urban League, and they help people summit resumes and provide career readiness training for families. Ultimately, the unemployment rate has its roots in the problem of poverty. Those who start their lives in poverty, statically they will never escape it. They

In “ Race, Self-Selection, and the Job Search Process” authors Devah Pager and David S. Pedulla ask whether Blacks self-select into sections of the labor market or adjust their job search strategies, as compared to Whites, in order to avoid labor market discrimination. Pager and Pedulla investigate this query by utilizing the longitudional New Jersey Unemployment Insurance (NJUI) Survey. The NJUI survey followed a random sample of NJUI recipients over a 12-week period at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, through a series of online surveys. Each week, respondents reported the number of jobs they had applied for and listed job titles for the three most recently applied to. In addition to the NJUI survey results, the authors used the

As politicians and media figures laud the relatively lower aggregate unemployment rates and the ‘success’ of ‘welfare reform,’ more careful observers note the hidden unemployment official numbers do not account for and caution the optimists that the real test of the ‘Personal Responsibility Act’ will be as the economy goes into recession. Official unemployment figures go down not only when the unemployed find work, but when ‘discouraged workers’ drop out of the labor force, a process with harsh consequences:

While workfare, or welfare policy characterized by benefit recipiency conditional to involvement in wage labor has significant historical precedence in the United Kingdom, contemporary forms of workfare have received increased attention in recent policy debates (Fletcher, 2014). One policy that has been subject to particular scrutiny is the Work Programme, which formed part of the coalition government’s policy response to rising unemployment and welfare dependency, beginning from its launch in 2011 to its 2015 replacement by other schemes. The Programme aimed to support a “range of participants including those who are at risk of long-term unemployment and others … who may have been out of work for several years” through financial incentives rewarded for “actively looking for work” (DWP, 2012, p. 5). This was paired with benefit sanctions for participating claimants who failed to meet the Programme’s requirement for active job search (Newton et al., 2012, p. 75).

John Burges and William Mitchell state that unemployment trend has acted as a “social exclusion perpetrated against particular sections of the community, in general the young, old, poor and uneducated” (1998). The issue then lays in the trade off between the

DeNicco’s (2013), quantitative research focused on ‘employment-at-will exception (EWE) and jobless recovery’. The purpose of this document is to review and analyze the strengths and weakness of the research. In addition to stating the reason the article was written by DeNicco.

But as I will show, a sustained expansion in the economy lasting, now, 13 years has reduced current unemployment to unusually low levels. The gains in reducing unemployment are evident even in the most problematic areas, such as youth unemployment, long-term unemployment and poor employment opportunities for older workers. Unemployment is not a precise concept. This is true even in countries, such as Australia, where most production of goods and services is done through the formal economy, and most people work for

However, life has changed, globalization and feminism have had a huge impact on the work environment all around the world. Technology has also made many jobs easier, yet very, very similar. Because of these changes, unemployment has become an issue all around the globe. The government views the unemployment situation as an individual problem.  From the government’s perspective, unemployment is due to the lack of training of the individual.  However, because

Unemployment refers to the numbers of people not working and can be measured by the claimant count and labour force survey. There are different types of unemployment and each of them requires different policies to overcome them.

Sociologists study human society. Their subject matter includes human behaviour in various social contexts, social interaction, social institutions and organisation, social change and development (Haralmbos, Van Krieken, Smith & Holborn 1999). For this reason, unemployment is an issue which sociologists delve. Unemployment has far reaching affects in all areas of society. Stratification in the areas of age, race, class, gender, ethnicity, sex and disability is rife amongst the employed and unemployed alike, unemployment creates further segregation amongst these already stratified people. This essay will look at unemployment from the functional and conflict theory