If one looks at the official rate of unemployment it has only recently started to decline.
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The Arab world is the region that carries the highest rate of unemployment in the world.
Currently the industry reporting the highest rate of unemployment is the hotel and catering sector.
On the x-axis is the rate of unemployment, on the y the rate of inflation.
This rise in the natural rate of unemployment has not responded to QE 1.2 and 3.
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But figures released on Wednesday showed a surprise fall in the headline rate of unemployment.
How can this blight of worklessness be squared with Britain's much-trumpeted low rate of unemployment?
Londonderry, 8.6%, tops the list as the district council area with the highest rate of unemployment .
Belfast, at 8.1%, has a higher rate of unemployment than the traditional jobs black spot of Strabane, 7.6%.
The rate of unemployment in the eurozone rose to a fresh record high in January, official figures show.
The Isle of Man has seen a 0.3% increase in the rate of unemployment, according to official Treasury figures.
The new-economy crowd insists this is nonsense: inflation is dead, and the concept of a natural rate of unemployment outdated.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the rate of unemployment below which wage pressure will tend to increase inflation is 5.8%.
Thus high rates of home ownership will lead to less labour force mobility and thus a higher natural rate of unemployment.
The macroeconomy has a long-run equilibrium natural rate of unemployment and GDP from which unanticipated counter-cyclical policy can scarcely nudge the economy.
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Economic growth and lowering the rate of unemployment depend on it.
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The rate of unemployment remains at 3.6% - its lowest since 1975.
Concerning the natural rate of unemployment, not only in Europe, the question remains though: How much better can it even get exactly?
And the Fed may have concluded that American inflation is less sensitive than it was to changes in the rate of unemployment.
New Yorkers are hoping that his second term will produce another miracle: a sustained fall in the city's persistently high rate of unemployment.
Stepping back from all the data, the big picture still shows a high rate of unemployment for young people, even after the recession.
That is one of the reasons why a high rate of unemployment has now become a structural condition in most of the developed world.
The rate of unemployment among young people for the three months to October was 18.4%, the highest since records began in this category in 1992.
On the other hand employers have driven down the rate of unemployment faster than was thought possible and confidence measures validate the recovery in output.
The NI rate of unemployment at 8.2% is lower than the European Union and the Republic of Ireland where unemployment is running at almost 15%.
Theory and practice both tell us that printing money cannot generate economic growth or lower the natural rate of unemployment, but it can cause inflation.
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Meanwhile the high rate of unemployment in the US, the world's largest economy, continues to be a concern despite encouraging economic data in recent weeks.
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The traditional reasons given for the higher natural rate of unemployment are better social security, stricter labour laws, minimum wages, lower labour mobility, and some others.
The answers to the survey question, expressed as an average for the period, are shown in the chart, plotted against the corresponding average rate of unemployment.
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