Bureau of LAbor Statistics uses two surveys: one is a monthly phone survey of at least 60,000 households. The other is a survey of thousands of employers.
From survey data, BLS produces many unemployment tables. The key one is the national unemployment count: the number of US workers who are actively seeking work this month, but have no paycheck. That number of jobseekers is divided by the total workforce: everyone employed, self employed and without a paycheck but looking. Currently about 10% of the workforce meets the definition of unemployed.
BLS does NOT count only those with unemployment insurance, since about 35% of those who meet the definition of unemployed do not qualify for UI benefits.
Some loons outside BLS claim they know the number is larger, because BLS does not include as unemployed folks NOT seeking work who COULD work, such as full time students, the totally disabled or temporarily severly ill, folks without transportation required to take a job or job hunt, and those who have a start date for a job in the near future. The loons are wrong.
You measure the unemployment of a country by doing a census. Then you can tell because the percent of black people in the country is the percent of unemployment in a economy. There is 2% of whites in Africa so the unemployment percent is 98%
If unemployment rates are low, the economy will become stronger. This is because more people have jobs and income that allow them to spend more.
the panic of 1837 affected the nations economy by entering an economic depression where the business and unemployment fell to a very low level.
Structural unemployment is when in an economy labour do not have the required skills for the jobs available .technological unemployment takes place due to changes in technology , technology increases productivity but less labour is required for it ,which at macro level can lead to structural unemployment
A developed economy refers to a country that has a high level of economic security and growth. This is usually determined by the Gross Domestic Product or GDP, industrialisation level, infrastructure, and the general living standards.
Economic forecasting is the process of making predictions about the economy. Forecasts can be carried out at a high level of aggregation-for example for GDP, inflation, unemployment or the fiscal deficit-or at a more disaggregated level, for specific sectors of the economy or even specific firms.
The income level and standard of living
The unemployment rate in Beijing, China is 4.1%.
There are many goals that need to be addressed by policy makers according to the need of the economy. The three goals include development of the economy, controlling inflation and stabilizing price level and decreasing the unemployment rates, by enhancing the welfare plans.
No, that was the highest rate of unemployment during his presidency, in 1982. During the Carter years before him, unemployment had been at an average level of 6.4%. Reagans average unemployment level was 7.5%.
The impact of higher rate of unemployment of a country is immense. It becomes the primary duty of the country to reduce the unemployment rate to a controllable level as generation of employment through creation of more industries is a positive indicator of economic growth of the country.The US economy under President Obama is reviving have been able to reduce the unemployment rate, by generating more enemployment.
Macroeconomic deals with the functioning of the economy as the whole. It is concerned with economy wide issues such as unemployment, inflation, and economics growth/development; it is the study of economics from a broad perspective of the resources and factors of production in an economy.
my short and simple answer would be the " study of the economy as a hole" but ill break that down a little bit more for you... macroeconomics is a study focusing on the behavior of the overall economy, including factors such as inflation and deflation, the level of unemployment, and production. it is the opposite of microeconomics.