noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crime/economic/unemployment etc statistics
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The economic statistics tell a grim story.
debt/unemployment etc trap
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people caught in the unemployment trap
tackle unemployment
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The government announced a new initiative to tackle unemployment.
the unemployment rate
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In April, the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent, a 23-year low.
unemployment benefit
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people on unemployment benefit
unemployment blackspot
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Arbroath is now the unemployment blackspot of northeast Scotland.
unemployment figures
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There have been changes in the way the unemployment figures are calculated.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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In the mid-1970s this picture was about to change, as economic crisis produced widespread unemployment , and particularly high youth unemployment.
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Many economists argue raising the minimum wage simply means higher unemployment among the very people such a measure is trying to help.
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The disparities in the rates of unemployment between socio-economic groups widen during periods of high unemployment.
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Share values were depressed by expectations of slower economic growth and higher unemployment .
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Officials from one country told Ellena that its citizens had enough stress coping with high unemployment and other transition ills.
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Anti-inflationary policies lead to restrictive monetary policies that deliberately produced high unemployment .
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At the same time, higher unemployment will involve increased government expenditure on unemployment benefits.
low
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Trend data on employment and economic activity rates for women are less reliable, particularly given their low unemployment registration rates.
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A booming economy, low unemployment and years of peace have made it difficult to replenish the graying ranks of white supremacists.
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Wage growth will be low , unemployment high, with consequent feedback effects on the economy.
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Thus, the alternative to low wages was unemployment .
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In consequence, these cities have relatively low levels of unemployment .
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Traditionally it's 6,500 inhabitants have enjoyed lower than average unemployment , better than average housing, good schools and medical facilities.
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The lowest unemployment in the state, about 2 percent to 3 percent, runs along the Greenville-Spartanburg stretch of Interstate 85.
mass
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The dispiriting memories of the seventies were fading. Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency.
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The implication of the ad was that Labour had produced mass unemployment and the Tories would cure it.
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Countries will become blighted and depressed regions, with mass unemployment .
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It was the last upswing before the onset of slump, stagnation and mass unemployment .
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But that knowledge has been buried in the war of words which has accompanied mass unemployment .
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First, the advent of mass unemployment .
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These same governments have been and continue to be the cause of mass unemployment and emigration.
natural
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A currency union is likely to lead to a reduction in member countries' natural rate of unemployment .
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This level of unemployment is called the natural level of unemployment.
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Lucas did not suggest that the observed fluctuations in unemployment were systematic deviations from the natural unemployment rate.
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Quite the contrary: they were fluctuations of the natural unemployment rate.
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The discrepancy between L F and L *; is thus a measure of the natural unemployment rate U *;.
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First arrive at an estimate of the natural unemployment rate.
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Coen and Hickman rightly mistrust the use of NAIRUs to form estimates of natural unemployment rates.
rising
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The response of government to rising unemployment must have two elements.
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Recession and rising unemployment have increased welfare demands.
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Time after time, ministers have tried to shift the blame for rising unemployment to the down-turn in the world economy.
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The army's position is ambiguous. Rising unemployment in the countryside has cancelled out the economic gains of the early-1980s reforms.
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But the group warned that the upturn would not be enough to reverse the rising trend in unemployment .
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Policy-makers felt general disappointment with the stubbornness of prices in the face of rising unemployment .
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This means that society is increasingly experiencing a lower standard of living than would be possible without rising levels of unemployment .
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Their initial response to the growth of crime, which stemmed from rising unemployment and inequality, was heavy-handed and militaristic.
■ NOUN
benefit
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As well as earnings from part-time work, other income can affect your entitlement to unemployment benefit .
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He called on Ministers to come clean over secret proposals to cut the unemployment benefit period from a year to six months.
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The two trade union confederations undertook to refrain from general strikes in return for minimum wage and unemployment benefit guarantees.
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Successful targeting of unemployment benefit policies calls for analysis at the individual level.
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All the women who had paid full National Insurance contributions had sufficient contributions to be eligible for unemployment benefit .
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In fact, about a third of the women were both the sole earners and were ineligible for unemployment benefit .
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These assumptions are very apparent in relation to unemployment benefit .
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There would thus have to be drastic cuts in public expenditure, particularly in the soaring cost of unemployment benefits .
blackspot
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All 2,060 workers will go in a town which is already an unemployment blackspot .
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He believes some firms could then reject the town as an unemployment blackspot .
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But North Tyneside, the region's unemployment blackspot would have taken little comfort from such news.
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He believes the council is in danger of giving Darlington a bad image as an unemployment blackspot .
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Cinderford stands in the heart of the forest of dean, an unemployment blackspot .
compensation
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His idea is to cap expenditure on entitlements: the mandatory spending on things like pensions, medical benefits and unemployment compensation .
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While unemployment compensation is better than nothing, a job is better than either.
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Social security, unemployment compensation , welfare, Medicare, food stamps, and public housing are examples.
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After I lost my job, I started receiving $ 300 a week in unemployment compensation .
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His problems started when one of the subcontractors collected unemployment compensation while working at the restaurant, he said.
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It would be equally ridiculous to think of taxing only unemployed workers to finance the unemployment compensation payments which they receive.
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And by collecting unemployment compensation , laid-off workers can continue spending, keeping the overall economy from slumping further.
figures
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On polling day itself, the worst unemployment figures for 30 years were announced.
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The monthly publication of the unemployment figures provides a depressing barometer of the dole queue.
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But the long recession, together with high unemployment figures and a stagnant housing market, has changed homeowners' perceptions.
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By February 1986 the government had announced fifteen separate changes to the way the unemployment figures were calculated and presented.
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Does not the Minister realise that the unemployment figures in the Province are deplorable?
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Next week's unemployment figures are not expected to show any significant reversal in the recent upward trend.
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In 1979, he said, the incoming government had felt the unemployment figures were too high.
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Nationwide, unemployment figures went up by 41,000, making the total 2,908,900 million.
insurance
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The mortgage is not only capped at 7.25%, it gives free unemployment insurance during the first two years.
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Admittedly, unemployment insurance is not the key perpetrator of unemployment.
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According to a recent survey, one in four new borrowers takes out unemployment insurance , double the number of three years ago.
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Eighty percent of wages replaced when on unemployment insurance !
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Even the United Kingdom Beveridge scheme had only a minor effect on unemployment insurance .
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State laws spread unemployment insurance payments over a four-day week.
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In the United States unemployment insurance , accident compensation and public assistance underwent no major changes.
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Among themselves, economists usually agree that welfare payments and unemployment insurance make getting a job less attractive.
level
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Evidence indicates that micro-chip technology could ensure that present high unemployment levels will continue.
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James Prior said unemployment levels were intolerable and Norman Tebbit said that he was going to prove that the problem was soluble.
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Even the unemployed place government policy rather low in a list of factors responsible for high unemployment levels .
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The Government can not be proud of unemployment levels of 7.6 percent. and male unemployment of 10.1 percent.
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But his Conservative counterpart said the drop in funding only reflected the fall in unemployment levels since their peak in 1986.
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Scant weight is given to indices of economic deprivation, such as unemployment levels and proportions of children or families in receipt of Supplementary Benefit.
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The Western Isles has one of the highest unemployment levels in Britain.
percentage
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Similarly, as D L increases, the unemployment percentage falls but is unlikely ever to reach zero.
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Similarly, a lower inflation rate could be achieved at the cost of an increase in the unemployment percentage .
problem
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But there is little evidence of an overall graduate unemployment problem except in the late 1870s and early 80s.
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Therefore the contraction in demand engineered by the government only succeeded in adding to the unemployment problem .
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Churchill, Beveridge and their colleagues recognized that insurance dealt only with the most tractable tip of the unemployment problem .
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There is a gross disparity between the size of the unemployment problem and the minuscule educational resources available to make adequate provision.
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It can not be emphasised too strongly that our unemployment problems do not stem from the installation of such equipment.
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We had a slump in 1981 - long before anyone else - which was when our unemployment problem began.
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But they would not cure the endemic unemployment problem .
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We still face unemployment problems , but the fact remains that employment has increased by 2,700.
rate
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The unemployment rate and the ratio of job-seekers to vacancies both fell precipitately.
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The unemployment rate in the area is about 13 percent, being rather higher in the winter months and near the coast.
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To understand the unemployment rate , we also need to know how long the jobless have been without jobs.
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The real unemployment rate has topped 17 %.
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The report tracks the unemployment rate nationally and in 11 major states, including Michigan.
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Changing metaphor, the equilibrium unemployment rate is seen to be shackled to the actual rate.
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Of those, California posted the highest unemployment rate -- 7. 7 percent -- last month.
trap
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So could her friends Michelle, Lenny, Tony, Sue a whole line of people caught in the unemployment trap .
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This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.
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The unemployment trap has been substantially eased and the simplification of social security has had major effects.
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This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world.
youth
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And in fact there are also topics to be drawn from the elements of the story - such as youth unemployment or divorce.
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Juppe said he would soon announce measures to fight youth unemployment .
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In the mid-1970s this picture was about to change, as economic crisis produced widespread unemployment , and particularly high youth unemployment.
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Task forces, meanwhile, were directed to tackle youth unemployment .
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At first this was because of high levels of youth unemployment and latterly because of demographic trends.
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In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment .
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Not surprisingly, therefore, with youth unemployment so high, some school-leavers with qualifications fail to find jobs.
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Thus, although youth unemployment is high, it tends to be of shorter duration than that among the older age groups.
■ VERB
cause
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The economic problems caused by unemployment led to the collapse of the second Labour government.
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But it causes rural unemployment unless some considerable thought is put into the change.
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Nowhere in the world has a minimum wage not caused higher unemployment .
create
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On all three occasions, peace had created unemployment among soldiers who were looking for adventure and pay.
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Thirdly the recession has created high unemployment , with an increase in demand for social security and unemployment benefit.
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Suppose that the union lifts the level of wages above the perfectly competitive market clearing wage, thus creating some unemployment .
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The Conservatives say its imposition would raise business costs and thus create unemployment .
fall
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Expenditure fell as unemployment fell, but it has continued to decline as unemployment has rocketed again.
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Even if rates do fall again, unemployment may not fall with them.
increase
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Small firms provide a useful channel for re-allocating labour from large firms without increasing official unemployment rates.
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Reductions in spending on labour-intensive services increase unemployment and hence social security costs.
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Unemployment figures increase Meanwhile, unemployment figures have risen to the highest level for more than five years.
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The report concludes with references to increase in long term unemployment and slump in business optimism.
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The right hon. Gentleman's minimum wage would increase unemployment by putting 2 million people out of work.
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Such policies may hinder attempts to achieve economic growth and may increase the level of unemployment .
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Any fiscal measures dampening demand for new cars will only increase unemployment in the motor trade.
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However, every Labour Government have increased unemployment , as the Library will confirm.
reduce
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The Second World War was not, he argues. fought to reduce unemployment .
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All they said was that they will reduce unemployment .
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Our emergency programme should reduce unemployment by at least 600,000 over two years.
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Labour relations have to be controlled to reduce unemployment .
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Not surprisingly, expansionary demand management policies will be successful in reducing Keynesian unemployment .
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Jim Prior considered it a disastrous Budget which would do nothing to reduce unemployment .
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The more extreme Euro-pessimists would view any attempt at expanding demand to reduce unemployment as being necessarily inflationary.
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Measures to reduce unemployment are of the utmost importance and have been outlined above.
rise
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The economy looks like having zero growth this year with rising unemployment .
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The rising unemployment rate was balm to Wall Street, which always worries over any hints of possible inflation.
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The incidence of indebtedness continues to rise due to redundancy, unemployment and inflation.
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The government would have more to spend, at the same time as real output would have risen offsetting unemployment .
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He has taken Britain into negative growth, rising unemployment and falling output.
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Prices will rise before wages, unemployment will increase and social security will, in real terms, fall.
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Yet general prosperity was rising too, and unemployment was falling anyway.
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The revenue crisis has led to rising unemployment and fewer new government jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Closure of the plant will mean unemployment for 500 workers.
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National unemployment is only 6%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Admittedly, unemployment insurance is not the key perpetrator of unemployment.
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An employee who was given that choice and chooses resignation can still receive unemployment compensation or file a lawsuit against the boss.
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As for the unemployment issue, I have never, never, uttered one word about this sensitive and intensely sad situation.
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Five years ago, for example, it was assumed that if unemployment fell below 6 percent, inflation would rise.
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High unemployment , non-payment of state wages and pensions and official cronyism and corruption will all be election issues.
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Second, equations will be estimated for unemployment flows 1967 - 1985 for the whole economy.
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The following review is selective and concentrates on the way unemployment benefit impacts on women.
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The second problem is the prejudice which redundancy and long-term unemployment may create in the mind of the interviewer.