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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.
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 ...
Frictional unemployment is a form of unemployment reflecting the gap between someone voluntarily leaving a job and finding another. As such, it is sometimes called search unemployment, though it also includes gaps in employment when transferring from one job to another. [ 1]
Structural unemployment. Structural unemployment is a form of involuntary unemployment caused by a mismatch between the skills that workers in the economy can offer, and the skills demanded of workers by employers (also known as the skills gap ). Structural unemployment is often brought about by technological changes that make the job skills of ...
Youth unemployment rates in 2023 returned to their pre-pandemic rates or lower in most, but not all subregions. For young people in the Arab States, East Asia, and South-East Asia and the Pacific ...
Involuntary unemployment occurs when a person is unemployed despite being willing to work at the prevailing wage. It is distinguished from voluntary unemployment, where a person chooses not to work because their reservation wage is higher than the prevailing wage. In an economy with involuntary unemployment, there is a surplus of labor at the ...
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.
Unemployment is particularly high during a recession. Many economists working within the neoclassical paradigm argue that there is a natural rate of unemployment which, when subtracted from the actual rate of unemployment, can be used to estimate the GDP gap during a recession. In other words, unemployment never reaches 0%, so it is not a ...