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Gainful employment. Broadly, gainful employment refers to an employment situation where the employee receives steady work, payment from the employer and that allows for self-sufficiency. In psychology, gainful employment is a positive psychology concept that explores the benefits of work and employment. Second only to personal relationships ...
Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) [ 2] not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the reference period. [ 3] Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who ...
978-0-230-00476-4. OCLC. 62532514. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a book by English economist John Maynard Keynes published in February 1936. It caused a profound shift in economic thought, [ 1] giving macroeconomics a central place in economic theory and contributing much of its terminology [ 2] – the "Keynesian ...
Youth unemployment. Young people protesting about youth unemployment in Hamburg. Youth unemployment is a special case of unemployment; youth, here, meaning those between the ages of 15 and 24. [ 1] Young people have difficulties finding work, consistently different from those of the general workforce. They also are affected in distinct ways.
Job security is the probability that an individual will keep their job; a job with a high level of security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of losing it. Many factors threaten job security: globalization, outsourcing, downsizing, recession, and new technology, to name a few. Basic economic theory holds that during ...
The natural rate of unemployment is a combination of frictional and structural unemployment that persists in an efficient, expanding economy when labor and resource markets are in equilibrium. Occurrence of disturbances (e.g., cyclical shifts in investment sentiments) will cause actual unemployment to continuously deviate from the natural rate ...
Frictional unemployment occurs when a worker is voluntarily between jobs. This is normal and healthy for the economy, as it increases the matches between job openings and seekers. Structural unemployment is caused by structural changes in the economy. This includes technological changes and the movement and relocation of certain industries.
Unemployment has been rising steadily not so much because companies are slashing jobs but because so many people have poured into the job market. Not all of them have found work right away.