efforts to find employment during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. The unemployment rate represents the … inception in March 1940. The best-known statistic calculated from CPS data is the unemployment rate. To be classified as … unemployed, a person must have had no employment during the survey reference week, been available for work, and made specific …

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for … labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global … potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in …

States with socialist economic systems also suffer from employment problems, a fact which is frequently passed over in …