As the unemployment rate continues to climb during the current recession, we frequently hear and read in the financial news that unemployment is a lagging indicator, destined to continue rising aft...
Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world’s economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade a...
Unemployment rates continue to climb nationwide. Over 5 million people that have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more, just over 6 months, through June 2009. See http://www.UnemploymentTV.com for...
A look at the unemployment data released yesterday & why things aren't as good as MSM says they are. It's not their fault, they're just clueless!
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The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2008 is one of a series of pocket-sized books intended to provide a quick reference to development data on different topics. The Little Data Book ...
Africa Development Indicators 2008/09 (ADI) provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It puts together data from different sources, making it an essential too...
Families must adapt when a husband loses his job and family finances depend solely on the wife's salary. Try these 6 tips to help you adjust as the unemployment rate rises.
From the early 1990s through the peak of the last business cycle, relatively low U.S. unemployment rates seemed to make the United States a model for the rest of the world’s economies. The Organiza...
In 1982, the United States experienced the highest annual unemployment rate since the Great Depression – 9.7 percent. In principle, that rate is directly comparable to the 8.1 percent seasonally ad...
Do minimum wage hikes raise US long term unemployment? Evidence using state minimum wage rates, Reg. Studies 33 , 713-726. Several recent studies have challenged the conventional notion that raisin...
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Uses the case of WV to study the effects of minimum wage on low-wage areas. Support is found for the theory that negative employment effects are more prevalent in low-wage areas by show...
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Explores minimum wage increases & the effects on employment rates, working hours, & number of retail & service firms in IA, drawing on county- & firm-level data collected during IA's r...