| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
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Unemployment Figures
Global Employment Crisis
According to the International Labour Organization, we are
currently in the worst global employment crisis since the Great
Depression of the 1930's. Worldwide, one of three men and women
are either unemployed or not earning enough for a minimum
standard of living.
Selected World Unemployment percentages by Area:
N.AMERICA 7.3
Canada 11.2
U.S. 6.9
Japan 2.5
Oceania 10.8
Australia 10.9
New Zealand 9.8
EUROPE 11.5
Austria 4.8
Belgium 12.1
Denmark 12.1
Finland 18.2
France 11.7
Germany 8.9
Greece 10.0
Ireland 17.6
Italy 10.2
Luxembourg 2.2
Netherlands 8.3
Norway 6.0
Portugal 5.1
Spain 22.7
Sweden 8.2
Switzerland 4.5
Turkey 8.6
United Kingdom 10.3
{from The Middlesex (MA.) News, 3/15/94}
{contributed by Alan Maltzman}
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| 1360.1 | ADISSW::SMYTH | Tue Mar 29 1994 11:56 | 6 | ||
>>>Worldwide, one of three men and women are either unemployed or not earning
>>>enough for a minimum standard of living.
And that does'nt even include the three-quarters of the worlds
population who live outside the OECD countries.
Joe.
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| 1360.2 | Too cold to work in the winter | POLAR::RUSHTON | տ� | Thu Mar 31 1994 20:21 | 5 |
George,
Were those figures 'seasonally adjusted'?
Korff O'Barbunk
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