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  2. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment in the United States discusses the causes and measures of U.S. unemployment and strategies for reducing it. Job creation and unemployment are affected by factors such as economic conditions, global competition, education, automation, and demographics. These factors can affect the number of workers, the duration of unemployment, and ...

  3. Jobless recovery - Wikipedia

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    DAC. DATE. IEEE Robotics and Automation Award. ICCAD. v. t. e. A jobless recovery or jobless growth is an economic phenomenon in which a macroeconomy experiences growth while maintaining or decreasing its level of employment. The term was coined by the economist Nick Perna in the early 1990s. [1][2]

  4. Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The ILO estimates global unemployment to rise between 5.3 million ("low" scenario) and 24.7 million ("high" scenario) from a base level of 188 million in 2019 as a result of COVID-19's impact on global GDP growth. By comparison, global unemployment went up by 22 million during the Great Recession. Women informal workers, migrants, youth and the ...

  5. Causes of unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are many domestic factors affecting the U.S. labor force and employment levels. These include: economic growth; cyclical and structural factors; demographics; education and training; innovation; labor unions; and industry consolidation [2] In addition to macroeconomic and individual firm-related factors, there are individual-related factors that influence the risk of unemployment.

  6. Phillips curve - Wikipedia

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    The Phillips curve is an economic model, named after Bill Phillips, that correlates reduced unemployment with increasing wages in an economy. [1] While Phillips did not directly link employment and inflation, this was a trivial deduction from his statistical findings.

  7. Economic growth - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year. [1] Statisticians conventionally measure such growth as the percent rate of increase in the real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP).

  8. COVID-19 recession - Wikipedia

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    The recession began in most countries in February 2020. After a year of global economic slowdown that saw stagnation of economic growth and consumer activity, the COVID-19 lockdowns and other precautions taken in early 2020 drove the global economy into crisis. [1][2][3][4] Within seven months, every advanced economy had fallen to recession. [5 ...

  9. Underemployment - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the observed unemployment rate and cyclically adjusted full employment unemployment rate is one measure of the societal level of underemployment. By Okun's Law, it is correlated with the gap between potential output and the actual real GDP. This "GDP gap" and the degree of underemployment of labor would be larger if they ...