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- Acing A Job Interview As A College Student
- Jobs have been increasingly harder to come by especially for a recent college student. The United State's job market is and has been in a slump for the past several years. Unemployment levels are increasing which means your chances of scoring a job, especially after college is decreasing. As a...
- White papers 2008-03-04
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- GOVERNMENT TO USE NEW FORMULA TO CALCULATE UNEMPLOYMENT.
- The Mexican government is planning to use new criteria to calculate the country's unemployment level to more accurately reflect the number of jobless individuals in the country. Beginning in January 2005, the Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social STPS and the Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas,...
- Research articles 2004-11-10
- 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"...
- 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...
- External links 2009-06-30
- Underreported Unemployment: Why Those Jobs May Not Come Back
- Today's weekly report of new unemployment claims showed what appears to be a big improvement -- a sharp drop to 522,000. But the seasonal adjustment factors are distorting our perspective, and the numbers are not as good as they look. We should probably be adjusting our long-term perspective, too, say...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- Lenders Say Unemployment and Mortgage Refinancing Don't Mix
- Last 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Israeli unemployment at 15-year low
- JERUSALEM AFP — Unemployment in Israel has dropped to 6.5 percent, the lowest level in 15 years, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Friday. A total of 190,000 people were jobless in the first quarter of 2008, which is the lowest level since the same three-month period in...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Home Properties, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from the line of David [Tote] – Citigroup. David [Tote] – Citigroup A couple of questions, there’s one particular statistic I find interesting with regard to your residential customers, home purchasing move outs dropped as would be...
- Earnings calls 2008-08-24
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- No Jobs For The Boys: Unemployment Hits Men Harder
- With many economists now cautiously predicting an economic recovery of sorts on the near horizon, it would be tempting to assume that, from now on, the only way is up. The inconvenient truth, however, is that UK unemployment -- particularly for men -- will continue to rise...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Weekly Unemployment Claims: 26 Year High
- The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims: In the week ending Dec. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 586,000, an increase of 30,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 556,000. The 4-week moving average was 558,000, an increase of 13,750 from the previous week's...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Unemployment Rate Drops to 5.1 Percent; Speaker Hastert Calls for Senate Democratic Leadership to Help Pass the Energy Bill
- WASHINGTON, June 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) today praised the U.S. Department of Labor's May report which stated the nation's unemployment rate has dropped to 5.1 percent -- the lowest level since September 2001. HaWASHINGTON, June 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Speaker of the...
- Research articles 2005-06-03
- British unemployment hits new 29-year low
- LONDON AFP — British unemployment fell for the 15th month in a row in August to reach the lowest level for 29 years, official figures showed. The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell by 6,100 to 830,200, the lowest level since July 1975, National Statistics said. Analysts...
- Research articles 2004-09-15
- Secretary-General to attend high-level meeting on strategy for easing unemployment among world's youth; Leaders of World Bank and ILO will join Geneva Parley.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 July 2001-UN: Secretary-General to attend high-level meeting on strategy for easing unemployment among world's youth; Leaders of World Bank and ILO will join Geneva Parley C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16072001 GENEVA -- With the world's major economies slowing...
- Research articles 2001-07-17
- April Unemployment Climbs to 4.7 Percent in Massachusetts.
- By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 18--Unemployment in Massachusetts rose to 4.7 percent last month to reach its highest level in six years. The new figure is more than a percentage point over the April...
- Research articles 2002-05-18
- PALESTINE: PALESTINIAN UNEMPLOYMENT SOARS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- The level of unemployment has exceeded 67% of the labor force in the Gaza Strip and 48% in the West Bank, according to statistics from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. In recent weeks, the level of unemployment in the West Bank has increased to 78%...
- Research articles 2002-07-17
- Owensboro, Ky.-Area Unemployment Drops to 3.6 Percent.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Jan. 10--Christmas shopping in November pushed Daviess County's unemployment rate down to 3.6 percent -- its lowest level since a 3.3 percent rate in April 1998. It was only the second time since 1973 that local unemployment had been that low. ...
- Research articles 2001-01-09
- Gary Becker: How to Survive in an Uncertain Economy
- Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker discusses what makes an employee valuable in today's workplace — and explains why a liberal arts education is the best asset in a volatile economy. Becker’s initial ideas about human capital were controversial at the time...
- Articles 2009-08-14
- Jobless claims rise by 7,000 to highest level in 2 weeks
- WASHINGTON --More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, in part because some businesses were forced to shut down after tornadoes wreaked damage upon the Midwest. The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications for state unemployment insurance rose by a seasonally adjusted 7,000 to 428,000 for the work...
- Research articles 2003-05-22
- Unemployment rate stable
- WASHINGTON AP -- The American economy entered the new year on a tear, creating 245,000 jobs in sales, construction, computers and other fields and holding the unemployment rate at a 28-year low of 4.3 percent. The government's first major economic report of the year, issued Friday by the...
- Research articles 1999-02-08
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