Unemployment
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Unemployment is the state of not being in paid employment or self-employment but rather currently available for work. Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people w
Unemployment in Mexico 2009
A government unemployment office with job listings, West Berlin, West Germany, 1982
Migrant Mother, photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1936
Demonstration against unemployment in Kerala, South India, India on 27 January 2004
Unemployment benefits
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Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depen
Unemployment
…industrialization and self-employment. Additionally, the measures of employment and unemployment may be "too high". In some countries, the availability of unemployment benefits can inflate statistics by giving an incentive to register as unemployed. People who do not seek work may choose to declare themselves unemployed to get…
Leaflet promoting the National Insurance Act 1911