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    INTRODUCTION What is unemployment? Unemployment happens when a man who is effectively looking for employment is not able to find some kind of employment. Unemployment is regularly utilised as a measure of the economy’s wellbeing. The most regularly referred to gauge of unemployment is the unemployment rate. This is the quantity of unemployed persons divided by the quantity of individuals in the work force. The unemployed are those individuals capable, accessible and willing to work at the going

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    The most controversial subject of economic turmoil, is the unemployment factor. In most of today’s unemployment terms, we are often limited to those that are actively seeking employment when numbers are counted. The one thing that is not looked at, is once someone has given up on finding employment or has settled for a less than opportune place of employment, the adjudication factors heavily on personal levels, rather that economic levels. The Great Depression was one of the most torturous, destructive

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    that as the state level of unemployment decreased, so too did successful rehabilitation in competitive employment (Chan, et al., 2014). The weakness of this research was that it focused on one year before and one year after the U.S. economic recession. Hence, the recession’s impact on specific states and models of employment may not apply to specific vocational rehabilitation service areas. Additionally, the research only predicted male employment; hence consideration for females was absent from

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    level of unemployment. This research paper will try to determine if there is any correlation between the increased crime rates and unemployment. This issue is important because the outcome of the research can be used by policy to determine effective means of dealing with this menace of crime. Additionally, the research will help to identify the various aspects that lead to unemployment and how this challenge can be dealt with effectively. From this research, we conclude that unemployment leads to

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    The influx of immigration in the past twenty years has adjusted the economy surrounding the United States work force. According to the 2016 Current Population Survey, immigrants and their U.S.-born children now number approximately 84.3 million people, or 27 percent of the overall U.S. population. (http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states#CurrentHistoricalNumbers). In the same year, it was reported that 27.0 billion foreign-born

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    According to Balami (2006) unemployment is conceptualized as a situation wherein a worker is or workers are involuntarily out of work. This means that workers are willing and able to work but cannot find any work. Unemployment has been defined by the classical economists as the excess supply of labour over the demand for labour which is cause by adjustment in real wage. The Classical or real-wage unemployment occurs when real wages for job are set above the market-clearing level, causing number of

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    issues affecting several counties is unemployment, US being no special case. Unemployment can also be attributed to as joblessness. Unemployment is conditions where people do not have jobs still are searching actively for the work. The most influenced are the youths who discover themselves inactive for not having jobs after finishing their studies. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment. Several countries undergo higher rates of unemployment amid the periods of recession.

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    STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT In this essay, I will speak about the structural unemployment and the effects that have on the economy. As we did see the economists and governments encourage this change. They encourage it because if the technology increase the companies productions and by increasing the companies production it will be good for the economy and for the standards of living, this last will increase too and give benefits on long-term too. But, let's see what the structural unemployment is about

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    dependency on past history; Hysteresis in unemployment therefore implies that unemployment depends on its past. This further implies that demand or supply side shocks to unemployment have the tendency to permanently affect the unemployment path (Saeid Eisazadeh 2014). There are several explanations for the persistence of unemployment, George S. et al (1988) highlights two broad explanations for the persistence of unemployment. The first states that long run unemployment rate is impacted by exogenous shocks

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    goes through various fluctuations in activity causing unemployment to fall, rise, or level out. What this creates is the first type of unemployment, known as cyclical; frictional is the second type, caused by a temporary leave (for whatever reason) by the employee, and structural is the third type, varying with the economic changes in demand. The absence of unemployment at its maximum level is termed full employment, another version of unemployment. The term encompassing the sum of the frictional, structural

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