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    (illegal & legal) not the native-born citizens “ Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal & illegal).” This is a problem because as it is shown Table 2 in the year 2007 the rate of native unemployment was 4.0% and later on

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    Unemployment: The Hardest Work Macroeconomics studies the behavior and the performance of the economy as a whole. Two of the main topics analyzed in macroeconomics are the long run economic growth and short run fluctuations in output and employment associated with business cycle. One of the problems evidenced over the course of business cycles is unemployment. This paper discusses how unemployment is measured, what are the different types of unemployment, and the cost of unemployment for a society

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    Introduction What Is Unemployment? Unemployment occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment ( a job) is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy. The most frequently cited measure of unemployment is the unemployment rate. This is the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of people in the labor force. Unemployment is defined as when a person is not employed, does not have a job and is actively seeking work, or the inability

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    shed jobs in January as the unemployment rate in oil-rich Alberta hit its highest level in almost 20 years. Canada lost a net 5,700 jobs in the first month of 2016, and the national unemployment rate increased to 7.2% from 7.1%. Unemployment is one of the major concerns of macroeconomics. It means that a person who is 16 years old or above that unemployed, but is available for work, and has made specific efforts to find a job during the previous four weeks. Unemployment is divided into three types

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    Causes and Effects of Unemployment Travis Epling Strayer University ENG 105 Jeanette Trammel 9/14/14 Causes and Effects of Unemployment There are many reasons for unemployment in the United States and around the world. Some of these causes are created by the individual and others are out of their control. No matter what the cause for unemployment, it has a devastating effect on the individual, family, and economy. Unemployment defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica is the condition of one

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    Unemployment rates differ widely across U.S. metropolitan areas. In 2007, they ranged from 3.1 percent or less among the 25 lowest unemployment metropolitan areas to 6.6 percent or more among the 25 highest unemployment metropolitan areas. Such large differences in metro unemployment rates have held continuously since at least 1990. Moreover, those metro areas that had a relatively high unemployment rate in one year tended to have a high unemployment rate 10 years and even 20 years later. How can

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    Macroeconomics: The Unemployment Rate The more Americans employed means we as a nation are experiencing economic growth. However, if there is a high unemployment rate this interprets that more Americans are struggling in our economy. There are several types and reason for high unemployment. Though America’s unemployment rate was 5.6%, as of December 2014, every state’s unemployment rate varies for different reasons. America’s unemployment rate has a direct negative impact on our entire nation’s economy

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    Unemployment is a major issue in almost every country in the world, it comes from the state of being unemployed, being unemployed means you are willing and able to work but cannot find a job for job related reasons. There are many causes of unemployment but the main ones are cyclical, frictional, structural, seasonal (Gillepsie, 2011). Cyclical unemployment occurs from economic downturns such as recessions, when there is a recession a company might want to eliminate some workers so that they would

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    Unemployment and the rate of Inflation are two main problems faced by most economies around the world. Lower rates of each are sought after in order to create and maintain a more stable economy. Unemployment rate can be officially defined as 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 labour force. The inflation rate is the percentage rate of change of a price index over time

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    Youth Unemployment in Nigeria INTRODUCTION Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the eighth most populous country in the world with a population of 154, 729,000 citizens. Our nominal GDP is $207. 116 billion and we have a nominal per capita income of $1, 4011. Nigeria also has the second largest economy in Africa. If I may ask, is this country not blessed? Yet, it is still plagued by youth unemployment which had been one of our major problems in recent years. Both government and

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