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Long-term UK unemployment on rise | Business | guardian.co.uk - 1 views

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long term unemployment government policy demographics inna

shared by Employment Group on 20 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Government policy is not keeping pace with joblessness
  • The government should guarantee everyone who has been unemployed for more than a year a job at the minimum wage in local government or the voluntary sector.
  • 71,000 more women aged 50 to 64 in the labour market than at the start of the recession at the end of 2007
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  • long-term unemployment was the "hidden crisis"
  • Long-term unemployment is the hidden crisis of the slowest-ever economic recovery
  • Employment Group on 12 May 12
     
    - Not many people acknowledged the problems of unemployment  - Long Term Unemployment is a problem (people don't have jobs for a long time) - Government policy can't keep up with the falling job rate  -Government Solution: guarantee everyone who has been unemployed for more than a year a job at minimum wage in a government or voluntary sector  -Demographics: Older women have been getting more jobs than men 
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Key Facts on Unions, Employment and Outsourcing - 14 views

Employment -Canadian unemployment rate is currently at 7.1%; the ideal rate is around 6%. -Private Sector Jobs relate to jobs created and maintained by private corporations or entities (think...

Unemployment Unions Outsourcing Key Facts

started by Employment Group on 17 May 12 no follow-up yet
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Too Late For The Unemployed? - Tim Duy's Fed Watch - 0 views

economistsview.typepad.com/...o-late-for-the-unemployed.html

Hsin-Yen unemployment cyclical vs. structural duration

shared by Employment Group on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • cyclical unemployment can turn structural: In the longer term, minimizing the duration of unemployment supports a healthy economy by avoiding some of the erosion of skills and loss of attachment to the labor force that is often associated with long-term unemployment.
  • more than 40 percent of the unemployed, or some 6 million people, have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer
  • Millions of unemployed workers may take longer to find jobs because their skills have depreciated or they may need to seek employment in other sectors.
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When the Jobless Become the Unemployable - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...03unemployed.html

Hsin-Yen unemployment duration employability cyclical vs. structural

shared by Employment Group on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • people out of work fewer than five weeks are more than three times as likely to find a job in the coming month than people who have been out of work for over a year, with a re-employment rate of 30.7 percent versus 8.7 percent, respectively.
  • those who lost jobs may have been good workers but were laid off from occupations or industries that are in permanent decline, like manufacturing.
    • Employment Group
      Employment Group on 17 May 12
       
      structural unemployment
  • In particularly dynamic industries, like software engineering, unemployed workers might also miss out on new developments and fail to develop the skills required.
    • Employment Group
      Employment Group on 17 May 12
       
      reduced employability
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  • employers do tend to get suspicious when there’s a long-term gap in people’s résumés,
  • One possible compromise might be broader-scale retraining and apprenticeship programs,
    • Employment Group
      Employment Group on 17 May 12
       
      Solution: increasing employability
  • Employment Group on 17 May 12
     
    This article describes the reasons why it is more difficult for workers to find work when they have been unemployed for a long time
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