Examples of unemployed

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The quality of life in the cities declined under the weight of the unemployed and underprivileged.
How much more likely were unemployed persons to be deprived, compared to those who were employed?
By the time the economic bubble burst in 1932, those committed to paying high, decontrolled rents, found themselves either unemployed or compelled to accept wage-cuts.
Table 2 shows the level of support for the various requirements as they applied to different categories of unemployed people.
The authors find, for example, no clear evidence of incapacity benefit being used as a more comfortable haven by the unemployed.
First, however, we need to explain why unemployed households conduct so much less self-help activity than employed households.
The unemployed criticised the sufficiency of both benefits; differences between the unemployed and employed were similar in 1992 and 1996.
Recruitment of unemployed and often violent youth who were more interested in looting than in defending citizens only added to the country's troubles.
Most of these poor, unemployed, lowcaste workers could hardly imagine more difficult circumstances than they were presently in.
Nonetheless, the interactive variable of presidential ideology and the unemployed rate quarterly change is not significant.
The unemployed wished for more financing for unemployment benefits and social assistance and single parents claimed more financing of child benefits and family benefits.
The unemployed claim more tax-money on social assistance and this claim became slightly stronger when moving towards the end of the period.
The prevalence of mental disorders was higher among those who are unemployed than employed, 73 and 47%, respectively.
However, the influences of the unemployed and old age pensioners point to a more nuanced argument.
What the government gives is cash, and the unemployed reciprocate with their labour time.
The government is also supporting time banking through its policy on participation by the unemployed.
The unemployed claimed more financing in 1995 and 1997.
Results from a national survey of public opinion are used to explore community views on a range of mutual obligation requirements for the unemployed.
At the time of the study, an additional 10 per cent of the unemployed were covered by this less generous unemployment benefit system.
The aim of these measures was to provide the unemployed with work experience and training in the regular labour market.
How concerned would you say you are that you will be left without work or unemployed during the next 12 months ?
More than twothirds had been labourers of one sort or another, on farms, docks, roads, or unemployed.
The higher the proportion of the unemployed, the larger will be the public sector.
One man was unemployed while he waited for a hernia operation.
A final criticism revolves around the savings of the unemployed and whether they continue to purchase equities during periods of unemployment.
Subjects currently unemployed were coded by their previous occupation.
As compared to superhunter households, also headed by an unemployed male, their harvest was 4.4 times less.
The occupation of the male head appears to be another determining factor, however, as many unemployed male heads maintained a much lower harvesting level.
In terms of occupational status, two-thirds of cases considered themselves unemployed due to health reasons, and only 13 % worked on a regular basis.
Second, the wishes of the unemployed for consumer goods do not constitute an effective demand.
Each worker can be in two states: employed or unemployed.
He showed the obvious and the hidden of urban life: the workers, unemployed, architecture and ghettos, growth and human wracks.
Being disabled or recently disabled or being unemployed or recently unemployed increased the risk moderately.
Whoever is unemployed and must visit an employment of®ce comes in contact with politics.
The parties most closely associated with these organisations tended to publish little about the unemployed themselves and focused more on broad policy questions and legislation.
The unpaid category consists of individuals in household work, people who are unemployed, students, beggars, elderly and retired people.
The unemployed workers' movement was largely demobilized in 1935.
In particular, unemployed agents are chosen randomly and do not have the possibility of insuring themselves against unemployment risk.
The khwushnishin population should continue to decline, perpetuating the current rapid urbanization, for unemployed farmworkers mostly migrate to urban centers to look for employment.
The prospect of large numbers of unemployed workers was not only an economic but also a social concern.
On the other hand, such a 'redistribution' would leave both the potential unemployed and the five, respectively, unharmed.
All her working girls are in dire poverty and many are unemployed.
In 1936, 450,000 older people received the meagre benefits granted to the poor, among them many redundant and unemployed older workers.
One would imagine them to be havens for the multitudes of unemployed and underemployed youths, many of them rural migrants.
The region contains a high proportion of migrants and people who are unemployed or on low incomes.
Options narrowed for arsenal workers as privately run factories shut down and the masses of unemployed grew.
The groups who would be most vulnerable in such a system would be the less favoured minorities, such as unemployed people or single parents.
Including these consistent matches brings the rate of matching up to 100% in the unemployed participants.
The problem, of course, is always to know what proportion of the unemployed corresponds really to these different hypothetical cases.
Three different types of active labour market policy measures involving the unemployed were studied, 'activation', 'vocational training' and 'workplace participation' measures.
The absence of female unemployed in surviving commentary reflects the gendered occupation of urban space.
Programmes for unemployed youth ultimately must take place within local and specific situations.
Only in 1995 did the unemployed oppose cutbacks in income transfers more than those in work.
The unemployed have not become poorer (except in so far as they may receive less support through intraor inter-household transfers).
Unfortunately, it is unclear what proportion of unemployed workers was unionised.
Of the fourteen men who were unemployed, three were retired (two prematurely because of ill-health).
Apart from the 24% who were still students and 6% who were unemployed, a majority of 70% were working.
Unemployed persons consume 10% more medical care than employed, controlling for age.
First, we examine unemployment only for ' prime-age ' workers, 25-54 years old ; thereby eliminating many of the unemployed without pensions from our sample.
Secondly, we calculate unemployment rates only for the experienced unemployed.
Workers who were left unemployed by the closing of their work places received 60 per cent of their wages as unemployment compensation.
Villages suffer from depopulation, agriculture is neglected and the cities are full of the unemployed.
They are usually unemployed (in the formal economy) and earn an irregular cash income.
Straw-plaiting, in particular, offered women, children and even unemployed men an avenue by which they could supplement household income.
Why did the program employ such limited numbers of the unemployed?
Many of the usual redistributive arrangements for the unemployed, the sick, the aged, etc., could arguably be defended along these lines.
They were effectively controlling both the environment and the time in which the unemployed spent at least a part of their day.
Harnessing the discontent of the rural poor and urban unemployed could give the regime a popular cause against the nouveaux riches.
Although the unemployed people may be even less likely to visit physicians because of higher copayments, our study population was composed of the employed.
Time costs were assumed to be zero for patients who were unemployed.
In the present study, the time costs were assumed to be zero for patients who were unemployed.
Labour market participation of unemployed people was given top priority, and various means were applied.
Families below the federal poverty line, or receiving government assistance or with an unemployed principal wage earner, are classified as experiencing economic disadvantage.
Unemployment rate - the percentage of males unemployed in each state, 1991.
Therefore, services and social care for the poor and unemployed or the growing population of the aged need more and more local investment and stimulation.
He blamed unions mostly for keeping the unemployed out of the labour market.
A very large part of the unemployed are former garment workers, and the rural population being especially hard hit.
The most commonly used measure was the percent of the adult population unemployed (n=63).
However, the pastor attributes the problems of unemployed and underemployed church members, or those without the necessary immigration papers, to witches and evil forces.
In addition, their households were older and their heads were less likely to be unemployed or retired.
Thus, retired or unemployed persons who provide informal care are not excluded.
Most people also see mutual obligation as implying action on the part of government to reduce unemployment and ease the plight of the unemployed.
The government helps the unemployed financially and health-wise.
In 1987, over one million children were living in families with an unemployed head.
Unemployed families are also more likely to have children who are themselves unemployed.
Should a question be included about the number of children in the unemployed person's family?
One by one they were closed, and again many people were out of work- unemployed.
Large numbers of teachers are unemployed, not because they are not needed, but because the government does not provide funds to employ more teachers.
As a result some of the hill farms are being joined together- amalgamated- and farm labourers are becoming unemployed.
Similarly, the unemployment trap exists when an unemployed worker, receiving benefit, may be less well off, or only marginally better off, in low-paid employment.
Doubtless there were also many who, though initially temporarily stopped, were not recalled within six weeks, and subsequently became wholly unemployed.
In some cases they would have been unemployed for less than six weeks, in other cases more.
Where a secondary earner was unemployed poverty was less likely.
Figure for 1938 is for insured persons unemployed.
A score of 1 on this variable indicated that the individual had been unemployed for 12 months or more.
Indeed, the unemployed usually have access to welfare or unemployment benefits, which are forms of state redistribution.
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