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  • Europe's Unemployment Rate

    How much of Europe's unemployment rate is structural unemployment? Are their higher then usual unemployment rates due to the actual strucuture of their economies? Is their natural rate of unemployment higher then americas, or is it simply because they are in an economic slump. Or are they in an economic slump because they have high natural/structural unemployment rates?
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    UFRANCE: 10% (latest)
    UUSA: 5.2% (latest)
    "Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini

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    • #3
      The Euros need to figure out the joys of mass incarceration.
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      • #4
        What do those stats include? I know that in the US, if you lose hope and give up looking for work, you're no longer counted as unemployed or something (?) is this true.
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        • #5
          they use the same definition everywhere.
          "Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini

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          • #6
            During the last 25 years, the rate of unemployment has been moving between 9 and 11%, and never returned to the 5 or 6% which were customary in the 60s when the economy was growing. Therefore, I am tempted to say that the present rate of unemployment includes a much higher structural rate than in the past, rate which could be as big as 8 or 9%.
            Statistical anomaly.
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            • #7
              Europe's unemployment rate is so high because they don't eat enough bananas. Bananas are the solution.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by DanS
                The Euros need to figure out the joys of mass incarceration.
                Sure, only 0.24% or 60000 persons of the active population is incarcerated in France (instead of 2% or 2.500.000 in the US), therefore the unemployment rate would decrease by 1.74%.
                Unfortunately, this would require 440000 more criminals, a quantity that cannot be presently produced nor delivered by the criminal industry.
                Statistical anomaly.
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                • #9
                  Make unemployment a crime and lock 'em up...huge prison population but 0% unemployment...
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by DAVOUT


                    Sure, only 0.24% or 60000 persons of the active population is incarcerated in France (instead of 2% or 2.500.000 in the US), therefore the unemployment rate would decrease by 1.74%.
                    Unfortunately, this would require 440000 more criminals, a quantity that cannot be presently produced nor delivered by the criminal industry.

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                    • #11
                      Remember, not only do prisoners come off the unemployment roll, but extra prisoners require extra prison guards, thus increasing the effect.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DAVOUT
                        Sure, only 0.24% or 60000 persons of the active population is incarcerated in France (instead of 2% or 2.500.000 in the US), therefore the unemployment rate would decrease by 1.74%.
                        Unfortunately, this would require 440000 more criminals, a quantity that cannot be presently produced nor delivered by the criminal industry.
                        That's what you get with all your laws making it hard to fire people - it's not worth it for the mob to get new employees

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                        • #13
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                          Unemployment is the end result of socialism. Where is the incentive to work?
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                          • #14
                            Hasn't one of their solutions been to increase the working week? Won't that just mean that existing workers work longer?

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                            • #15
                              Europe doesn't use as much monetary stimulus, because it doesn't work as well there. They have much more trouble with inflation.
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