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They were unemployment, productivity, and pro-growth reforms.
Capital tends to avoid countries where employment is heavily taxed or heavily protected, leading to a rise in unemployment.
More recently, inflation expectations in the United States and the United Kingdom remained well anchored even when the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England had to walk away from the unemployment thresholds they had announced.
It now remains to be seen whether this momentum can be maintained, which will depend largely on whether the EU can overcome the economic crisis (which continues to worsen in several member countries), restore growth, and curb unemployment.
Trump’s deficit-busting tax cuts and increases in government spending make no sense for an economy nearing a business-cycle peak and with an unemployment rate of 3.8%.
Unemployment checks had run out.
Spain’s unemployment, which had been near 20% since the beginning of the recession, crept even higher.
It is possible, of course, that the United States will solve its political problems and finally adopt the stimulus measures that it needs to bring down unemployment to 6% or 7% (the pre-crisis level of 4% or 5% is too much to hope for).
For example, high unemployment has depressed wages and increased poverty.
Even without widening the fiscal deficit, such “balanced budget” increases in taxes and spending would lower unemployment and increase output.
Likewise, the enduring attraction of supply-side economics, despite all of the evidence against it (especially in a period in which there is high unemployment), will prevent raising taxes at the top.
This helps to explain the high level of unemployment in the Arab world.
Unemployment is also at record and near record highs almost everywhere.
Unemployment is also very high in both countries: 12.5% on this side of the Rhine, 10.2% on the other.
Today, fear of unemployment limits consumption, lowering still further the state’s fiscal revenues.
The importance of unemployment on the old continent, as against an America which created six million new jobs in the last four years, is sufficient to explain this independent attitude.
Elsewhere, though, things really are dismal: unemployment in the eurozone remains stubbornly high and the long-term unemployment rate in the US still far exceeds its pre-recession levels.
Revised data for the US indicate that real GDP grew at an annual pace of 4.1% in the third quarter of 2013, while the unemployment rate finally reached 7% in November – the lowest level in five years.
America’s new problem is long-term unemployment, which affects nearly 40% of those without jobs, compounded by one of the poorest unemployment-insurance systems among advanced countries, with benefits normally expiring after 26 weeks.
But now congressional Republicans are refusing to adapt the unemployment system to this reality; as Congress went into recess for the holidays, it gave the long-term unemployed the equivalent of a pink slip: as 2014 begins, the roughly 1.3 million Americans who lost their unemployment benefits at the end of December have been left to their own devices.
Meanwhile, a major reason that the US unemployment rate is currently as low as it is, is that so many people have dropped out of the labor force.
The Fed has signaled that it is prepared to do more to support growth and bring down unemployment.
Massive migration to urban areas, high unemployment, low incomes, poor housing and sanitation, inadequate infrastructure, and social deprivation are shared symptoms of economic hubs where population growth has not been reconciled with cohesive approaches to public-health policy.
Even as the disease burden in emerging-market cities shifts from infectious to chronic illnesses, urban populations remain vulnerable to epidemic disease, childhood diseases born of malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and mental disorders rooted in unemployment and poverty.
Typically, unemployment benefits last only six months.
Brazil’s unemployment rate, for example, is at lows not seen for decades.
High unemployment coexists with unfilled jobs.
Admittedly, the country’s economic performance after the oil shock of the early 1970s was poor, marked by slow growth, high inflation and unemployment, huge fiscal deficits, increasing debt, a declining currency, and inadequate infrastructure.
Similarly, the €6 billion package approved by the EU in August to help reduce endemic youth unemployment, especially in Spain, must be seen as a step in the right direction.
The effects can be seen in a 17% unemployment rate, extraordinarily low salaries, and a high crime rate.
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