From the viewpoint of your average citizen, the cause of unemployment is simple: you have lost or are unable to find a job. Yet from the viewpoint of an economics major, unemployment and its causes are more complicated (as are all ordinary things when they are examined by academia). The first difference that economists will […]
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The company where I worked for many years is closing the warehouse where I work part-time, so I had to take a fall course. As part of my preparation, I recently attended a conference on the benefits of discontinuance in Tennessee. I’ve been making notes and taking names, and I have some tips to share […]
The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR) reports that the unemployment rate in Nevada has gone from 4% in November, 2006 to 14.2% as of June, 2010 – the highest in the state. To increase this increase, President Obama signed the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2010 on July 22, 2010. Nevada’s unemployment […]
The term unemployment is used to describe anyone or any group of people who are willing to work but do not have at least some form of occupation. There are several types of unemployment. One type of unemployment is frictional unemployment. Frictional unemployment describes a person’s transition between jobs. With this type of unemployment there […]