Example sentences of "unemployment rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graduate Careers : The closing of the jobs gap between universities and polys : Unemployment rates for polytechnic graduates fell dramatically last year , Peter Wilby reports . |
| 2 | For years , unemployment rates among poly graduates , six months after finishing , have been higher than those among comparable university graduates . |
| 3 | In eight subjects , poly unemployment rates had risen while university rates had fallen ; the reverse was true in only three subjects . |
| 4 | High unemployment rates bear heavily on benefit payments . |
| 5 | It is not simply that a large number of multiply-deprived people live in the urban cores ( Hall and Laurence , 1981 ) ; there are individuals and households where this applies , but highest unemployment rates are frequently encountered in areas of new public housing that would not be identified as inadequate in census surveys . |
| 6 | By 1987 , the travel-to-work areas encompassing the seven major conurbations held more than 850,000 registered unemployed and , with the exception of Greater London , average unemployment rates were over 15 per cent ( DE , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | These processes collectively impose unemployment rates of , for example , 4.5 per cent in Berkshire early in 1988 , compared with 19.3 per cent on Merseyside ( DE , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | In part to complement the broad-based approach towards co-ordination developed within the CATS , the Inner City Initiative was launched in 1986 to increase Private-sector investment in small urban areas that were subject to high unemployment rates . |
| 9 | It has created 1,900 jobs but during the same period over 800 existing jobs have been lost in an area which lies at the heart of three parliamentary constituencies with some of the highest unemployment rates in Britain . |
| 10 | Radical changes were not made and yet unemployment rates remained more or less constant in single percentage figures throughout OECD countries until the oil price shock induced recession after 1973 . |
| 11 | Mining proposals continue to have the prospect of minimal impact on unemployment rates . |
| 12 | Column 4 considers regional unemployment rates as a proportion of the working population . |
| 13 | ( However , it should be pointed out that the Welsh and Scottish figures are percentages of much higher unemployment rates and are , therefore , not as favourable as might at first seem ) . |
| 14 | In both countries the high levels of unionisation and low unemployment rates for much of the post-war period gave workers significant leverage in workplace negotiations . |
| 15 | Black youth suffers particularly high levels of unemployment : in 1983 , for example , when unemployment rates for white young people were 30 per cent for men and 23 per cent for women , the levels were 46 per cent and 50 per cent respectively for Afro-Caribbeans and 35 per cent and 47 per cent respectively for Asians . |
| 16 | Their more recent work emphasizes the very considerable regional variations which reflect relative unemployment rates . |
| 17 | Even for the optimists this allowed for unemployment rates of up to 8 per cent . |
| 18 | Even in the decade following the 1973 oil crisis , official unemployment rates have never exceeded 3 per cent , compared to the double figure levels in the EEC or the US . |
| 19 | International comparisons of unemployment rates are as notoriously difficult as measures of income distribution , and the Labour Ministry in Japan , as in other countries , has its own idiosyncratic style of creative statistical construction . |
| 20 | There will be a more intensive look at this problem later , but for now all that concerns us is that the job security component of the company loyalty is reflected at national level in official unemployment rates . |
| 21 | Small firms provide a useful channel for re-allocating labour from large firms without increasing official unemployment rates . |
| 22 | Furthermore , as in the first survey , the rate of known opioid use was significantly correlated with townships ' unemployment rates and other indicators of social deprivation . |
| 23 | As in the first survey , four out of five known opioid users who were available for work were unemployed , and the rate of problem drug use was again significantly correlated with townships ' unemployment rates and other indicators of social deprivation . |
| 24 | The Fair Employment Commission was set up because of the disadvantage experienced by Northern Ireland Catholics in terms of greatly higher unemployment rates , lower participation rates in the more prestigious better-paid jobs and much greater participation in insecure or poorly paid jobs . |
| 25 | This argument carries particular political significance in a society in which the divisions between Catholics and Protestants are so obviously manifest in differential unemployment rates . |
| 26 | In the 1982 survey ( Brown , 1984 ) , the results of which provide much of the recent information about the black community in Britain , the unemployment rates are 13 per cent for whites , 25 per cent for West Indians , and 20 per cent for Asians , although there are large differences within the Asian group . |
| 27 | The same is true of the differences in unemployment rates . |
| 28 | Nonetheless such decentralization contributed to a degree of evening-out of unemployment rates between different parts of the country . |
| 29 | The decentralization towards the old industrial periphery marked a shift of jobs back to regions which since the 1930s had had dramatically higher unemployment rates than elsewhere . |
| 30 | The validity of such first destination statistics as a general measure of graduate employment will be discussed in Chapter 3 , and it is important to note that in this case they did not cover the colleges/institutes of higher education , which produce significant numbers of ‘ arts ’ graduates who have relatively high unemployment rates . |