Example sentences of "unemployment rate " in BNC.
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| 61 | It would not follow that the recent decline in unemployment rates in England and Wales would lead to reductions in the numbers imprisoned after taking crime rates into account . |
| 62 | Winyard reports , for example , that at the beginning of 1987 , when the UK unemployment rate was 11.9 per cent , fifty-one ‘ travel-to-work areas ’ had unemployment rates of more than 20 per cent . |
| 63 | The plight of the Pakistani/Bangladeshi minority is particularly serious with unemployment rates almost three times the level of those among the white population . |
| 64 | The UK has , in European terms , the largest difference between unemployment rates and wages . |
| 65 | Worse still , high interest rates caused unemployment rates to soar ( see the graph on page 44 ) . |
| 66 | It has one of the highest unemployment rates in the EEC . |
| 67 | Our review will be objective and it will be based on supporting areas in which there is a disparity in unemployment rates . |
| 68 | Opposition Members like to make great play of comparing our unemployment rates with those in certain west European countries , of course . |
| 69 | Youth unemployment rates vary widely between different areas of large cities . |
| 70 | Much attention is now being paid to the contribution which differences in labour market flexibility might make to the explanation of international differences in unemployment rates and economic growth . |
| 71 | ‘ There is no room for complacency and these trends will need to be maintained and indeed accelerated if the unacceptable difference between Protestant and Catholic unemployment rates is to be eliminated and if the Commission is to achieve its target of bringing about a situation where there is equal representation of both communities in all areas and sectors of employed . ’ |
| 72 | Unemployment rates were particularly high ( 16-28 per cent ) in the Central Asian and Transcaucasian republics . |
| 73 | In some OECD countries , unemployment rates remained very stable in 1989 : 7.5 per cent in Canada , 7 per cent in West Germany , 2.25 per cent in Japan and 5.25 per cent in the USA . |
| 74 | In western Germany unemployment rates fell , as did the number of vacancies notified . |
| 75 | In December 1990 unemployment rates were 6.8 per cent in western Germany , and 7.3 per cent in eastern Germany . |
| 76 | Generally , economic factors such as unemployment rates , trade and capital flows , seem to be the main determinants of labour mobility . |
| 77 | As regional policy at the national and EC level has evolved over the years , in order to ensure that national assistance does not conflict with the pursuit of competition and free trade , the EC has defined criteria for determining aid eligibility ( usually on the basis of GDP per capita and/or unemployment rates ) . |
| 78 | So this sort of , even that 's just what the Harrison model erm , tells us , right , so that 's , unemployment rates are , are virtually erm , unimportant in the migrant 's decision . |
| 79 | Unemployment rates now , it 's because they may well be , if they 're acting rationally , discount over a very large , long period of time . |
| 80 | If they knew that the unemployment rates were twenty or thirty percent in urban areas that they would n't migrate but because they do n't have that information that 's , that 's the reason . |
| 81 | they say even though unemployment rates are very high now , people are prepared to wait ten years before they get a job . |
| 82 | If , if anybody is interested , these unemployment rates are calculated by the number of unemployed as a percentage of the estimated total of the workforce , the sum of the unemployed claimants , employees , and call it self-employed , H M Forces and participants in work related training programmes . |
| 83 | Apart from the inflation associated with the Korean War , this period was marked by a combination of unprecedentedly low unemployment rates with price levels which were admittedly creeping upwards , but at rates which were so modest that they were regarded as tolerable . |
| 84 | Moreover , the unemployment rates with which post-war creeping inflations were associated were well below the rates which even the most sanguine of Keynesians would have regarded as feasible minima . |
| 85 | Monetary and fiscal policies could be combined in such a way as to achieve and maintain unemployment rates which differed from the natural rate . |
| 86 | How could a discrepancy between the actual and the natural unemployment rates be made to persist simply as a result of the actions of the monetary and fiscal authorities ? |
| 87 | Workers are intertemporal speculators and abnormally high unemployment rates reflect the subjective speculation by workers that the real wage rate will rise to its normal value in the near future . |
| 88 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 89 | Given that they have ruled out of court the concept of demand deficient unemployment , the new classical writers have left themselves with no alternative explanation : if markets are clearing , they must be clearing at different measured unemployment rates . |
| 90 | For the new classicals , high unemployment rates should not be the object of discretionary government intervention since they are mere epiphenomena . |