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Unemployment: the situation in which some members of a country's labor force are willing to work but cannot find employment; Unemployment definition on BNET »

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Unemployment Decreases in Aberdeen, S.D., Area.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News): Nov. 25--Figures released Friday by the South Dakota Department of Labor show that October unemployment rates are lower than October 1999 in most area counties. Nov. 25--Figures released Friday by the South Dakota Department of Labor show that October unemployment rates are lower than...; Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., unemployment, unemployment rate; Research articles 2000-11-26
Mixed Signs in Jobless Data: First-time unemployment claims fall to the lowest level in 10 months, but the unemployment rate is still likely to top 10 percent by year's end.; Tags: Unemployment Rate, Unemployment, MoneyWatch, Alexis Christoforous; Videos 2009-10-08
Whose Recovery Is This?: Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...; Tags: Job, Recovery, Women, Health Care, Unemployment Rate, Worker, MoneyWatch, Gender And Diversity, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Recession, Stock Market, Wall Street, Main Street, Banks, Manufacturing, Discount Retailers, Department Stores, Men, Female Workers, Male Workers, Older Workers, Younger Workers, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Real Estate, Bismarck, Detroit, Unemployment, Employment, Sex Toys, Charitable Donations, Oil Consumption, Wind Power, Nicolas Cage, Britney Spears, Ernest Beck; Articles 2009-11-05
Why Employment Might Not Fully Recover Until 2013: The most recent employment report shows the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, and the broaderÂ unemployment rate that accounts for part-time work and discouraged workers at 17.5 percent. With numbers like these, can we expect good news on the employment front anytime soon? Historically, a good rule...; Tags: Recession, Unemployment Rate, Unemployment, Mark Thoma; Blog posts 2009-11-10

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Will There Be a 'New Normal' For Unemployment?: In my last post, I wrote about the longer than usual time period I think it will take for unemployment to return to its normal, or full employment level, but I didn't define what normal unemployment is. An important question for policymakers is whether there will be "a new normal"...; Tags: Job, Unemployment, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Mark Thoma; Blog posts 2009-11-11

Unemployment in Japan Will Be Above 6% by August: Ivan Kitov submits: Since the beginning of 2009, the unemployment rate in Japan has been on rise. The Statistical Bureau of Japan has just announced a severe increase in the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate up to 5.2% in May. There was only 4.1% unemployment in December 2008. We...; Tags: Japan, Ivan Kitov; External links 2009-06-30
Lenders Say Unemployment and Mortgage Refinancing Don't Mix: LastÂ week's bit of unwelcome news: Michigan's unemployment rate has shot up to 12.6 percent in March. At least that's the official unemployment rate. The unofficial unemployment rate (which includes everyone who has stopped looking for a job, or who is working part-time instead of full-time, or who gave up and...; Tags: Unemployment, Mortgages, Recruitment & Selection, Finance, Capital Structures, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ilyce Glink; Blog posts 2009-04-20
And Unemployment Up. (In Brief).(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): The OECD unemployment rate on a standardized basis was 6.8 percent in October, 0.2 percent higher than September and 0.5 percent higher than a year earlier, based on estimates from 25 OECD member countries. The unemployment rate rose to 5.4 percent The OECD unemployment...; Tags: OECD, unemployment rate; Research articles 2001-12-24
Part-Time Work Helps Hold Down Unemployment: The March report on US employment was grim, and is certain to become worse. The unemployment insurance report on April 9 showed another 600,000 new claims, and U.S. corporations already have announced something like 150,000 future job cuts, according to outplacement consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas. But...; Tags: John Keefe; Blog posts 2009-04-13
Five times foolish? (five interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve Board may be based on false projections of inflation and natural rate of unemployment) (American Survey): THE figures could hardly have been more reassuring. On September 7th the Labour Department reported that 179,000 new payroll jobs were created in August; the unemployment rate remained where it has been since May, at 6.1%. Wage growth was moderate, as THE figures could hardly have been...; Tags: Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rate, survey; Research articles 1994-09-10
Japan's low unemployment: a BLS update and revision - United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Analysis of Japan's special labor force surveys for the years 1989 to 1992 confirms the Bureau of Labor Statistics previous findings that the overall unemployment rate in Japan, as measured by the regular monthly survey, is only slightly changed when adjusted to U.S. concepts of unemployment and is well below...; Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment rate; Research articles 1993-10-01
Travel Roundup: Deutsche Bank Sues Trump, NASCAR Hurts Tourism, Unemployment Hits BART and More: Deutsche Bank sues Trump over defaulted loan -- Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas claims Donald Trump owesÂ it $40 million after heÂ defaulted on a $640 million loan for his Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court, alleges that Trump signed a personal...; Tags: Deutsche Bank AG, NASCAR, Unemployment, Florida, Trump, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Barbara E. Hernandez; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Employment and unemployment developments, July 2002: Both the unemployment rate, 5.9 percent, and total nonfarm payroll employment, 130.8 million, were unchanged in July. A gain in payroll employment in services was partially offset by a decline in construction. Job losses continued to moderate in manufacturing, but the factory workweek fell. Unemployment The number of...; Tags: Residential Lighting; Research articles 2002-08-01
Google Now Charts Unemployment and Other Public Data: Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG is getting fancy with public data in search results. If you search for “unemployment rate New York” or for any other state or county in the U.S., the first result will be the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor...; Tags: Internet, Erick Schonfeld, Google Inc.; External links 2009-04-28
South Dakota Unemployment Rate Rises but Remains Lowest in U.S.: By Nick Kotzea, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 30--The state's unemployment rate rose slightly for the month of April from 2001 to 2002, but South Dakota maintained its hold on the lowest jobless percentage in the country, according...; Tags: Aberdeen Group Inc., unemployment, worker; Research articles 2002-05-30
Labour markets and inflation - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries - Domestic and International Developments: OECD-area employment may have risen slightly during the first half of 1992, following a year of retrenchment, but the unemployment rate increased further to an estimated 7 1/2 per cent (almost 30 million persons unemployed). In response to rising unemployment and growing slack in product markets, both wages and prices...; Tags: disinflation, FINANCE, inflation, job, OECD, salary, unemployment; Research articles 1992-06-01
Bearish Take on the Unemployment Numbers: Michael Shulman submits: I found the unemployment numbers to be quite bad, and not because I write a newsletter on shorting stocks (well, I also recommend some longs based on a contrarian view of the Street's conventional wisdom.) When these data are released, regardless of the months, I look...; Tags: US Market, ETF, Michael Shulman; External links 2009-08-09
Does Manufacturing Really Signal Good News for the U.S. Economy?: Gerard Jackson submits: It is economic theory that informs statistics and not the reverse. In other words, statistics should be interpreted according to theory. Unfortunately the failure of a large number of economists to grasp this fact, including some of the very smart ones, has had the most adverse consequences,...; Tags: US Market, Gerard Jackson; External links 2009-10-22
Zimbabwe's malnutrition rate touches 30 percent: HARARE AFP — Zimbabwe's malnutrition rate has reached almost 30 percent amid galloping inflation and unemployment, compounded by an acute shortage of basic goods, the government said. "Malnutrition has slightly increased," a government demographic survey for the 2005-2006 period said. "Stunting, a measure of chronic malnutrition, is reported to be...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, FINANCE, Government, MARKETING, SOFTWARE, survey, Zimbabwe; Research articles 2006-09-07
Rise of German economy puts unemployment at four-year low: FRANKFURT AFP — Recovery of the German economy -- the biggest in the 12-country eurozone -- is feeding into jobs and unemployment has fallen below four million for the first time for four years. The Federal Labour Agency in Nuremberg calculated that the German jobless total fell by 89,400 to...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, autumn, FINANCE, SALES, Taxes, unemployment; Research articles 2006-11-30