Example sentences of "unemployment rate " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unemployment rates are typically 30–40 per cent and rising . |
| 32 | Unemployment rates arguably provide the most sensitive indicators of local employment opportunities . |
| 33 | But there is a second , more local , level at which substantial differences exist in unemployment rates . |
| 34 | This can be illustrated by an analysis of 1977 unemployment rates in Norfolk . |
| 35 | The unemployment rates did not differ significantly in these darker areas , being high for both groups . |
| 36 | of those in the city ) were evidently a more stable population , although both groups had high unemployment rates . |
| 37 | Figure 7.7 Male unemployment rates by age and housing tenure , Great Britain , 1981 |
| 38 | Figure 7.8 Male unemployment rates by age and family status , Great Britain , 1981 |
| 39 | The unemployment rates among married heads of household moving from the owner-occupied to the local authority sector is about six times the rate of those moving in the opposite direction ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ) . |
| 40 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 41 | Using data from the 1983 Labour Force Survey , they show that whereas unemployment rates for non-manual workers are low , with little variation between regions , those for manual workers are much higher and exhibit a much wider degree of regional variation ( see columns 1 and 2 of table 8.3 ) . |
| 42 | In London , for instance , the most severely affected boroughs like Hackney and Tower Hamlets , with male unemployment rates of over 28 per cent in 1986 , had already seen sharp rises in joblessness between 1971 and 1981 , which had driven more people to work outside the boroughs of residence and brought a marked fall in the numbers of women in paid work ( Townsend el al. , 1987 ) . |
| 43 | Furthermore rural unemployment rates are higher on average than those in towns , so that although it is less visible than urban unemployment , because the absolute numbers involved are so much smaller , rural unemployment has a significant effect in dampening down rural wage increases . |
| 44 | For most of the period up to the beginning of the Second World War , labour was plentiful and unemployment rates varied from moderate to the very high rates of the depression . |
| 45 | These were the years when unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies were low , demands for labour were high , economic prospects were bright and the belief in science and technology was strong . |
| 46 | Suffice it to say here that unemployment rates in all advanced industrial societies rose substantially during this period ; the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s was replaced by general pessimism about future economic prospects in individual countries and in the world in general ; and all this after a period of unprecedented growth in public expenditure on education and health in all advanced industrial countries . |
| 47 | Thus , the effects of reduced mortality rates and of improved life expectancy rates on unemployment rates or hours of work are ignored on the grounds that the effects of such factors on economic growth must be considered separately . |
| 48 | Yet it was the relatively high unemployment rates of 1958 and the worsening national economic situation that prodded the Conservative government in 1958 to re-activate regional policy . |
| 49 | The use of unemployment rates as a criterion of the effectiveness of regional policies is of limited value . |
| 50 | With these qualifications in mind , it can be said that regional policies have moderated the relative but not the absolute differences in the unemployment rates of development and non-development areas , as Table 4.5 suggests . |
| 51 | The factory is located in a sub-region where both male and female unemployment rates are well above the national average . |
| 52 | The ‘ marriage bar ’ became the rule in other forms of public sector employment and in many types of private sector employment , especially when unemployment rates were high between the two world wars . |
| 53 | Furthermore , it could be possible to update locally certain factors in the Jarman index more regularly , especially unemployment rates , which change so rapidly . |
| 54 | Data such as unemployment rates have been shown to perform as well as other , more complex indices and are likely to have a more stable social meaning across areas and over time . |
| 55 | Between 1923 and 1939 unemployment rates in these hard-hit industries were high : shipbuilding 38.8 per cent ( on average ) , cotton textiles 20.7 per cent , and coal mining 19.8 per cent . |
| 56 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of the Industrial Population was set up in 1937 ; the terms of reference were : The long years of economic depression and high unemployment rates , the sharp divide between favoured and unfavoured regions , and the drift of population from ‘ north ’ to ‘ south ’ combined to supply the political pressure for enquiry . |
| 57 | The emphasis now has switched more to whole manufacturing and mining sub-regions ( such as South Yorkshire or Merseyside ) , which , together with older parts of major cities , can suffer unemployment rates in excess of ten per cent with little prospect of redress . |
| 58 | When , as here , figures are standardized between different countries , the UK exhibited the worst overall unemployment rates in 1982 , but France and Italy were latterly suffering worse unemployment . |
| 59 | ( 1982 ) show that the maximum value of accessibility to the European market lay in the area of the Ruhr/Benelux , and that poor access was one common causative factor in the higher unemployment rates of the peripheral regions of the Community . |
| 60 | According to analyses based on the 1983 Labour Force Survey , migration 's role in swelling the South 's labour force was then restricted to non-manual workers ; though unemployment rates for manual workers were markedly higher in the North than the South , there was no net migration of manual workers to the South ( Hughes and McCormick , 1987a ) . |