Example sentences of "level of unemployment [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 2 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 3 | To test the prediction that the unpredictable component of monetary growth affects real variables , Barro first regresses the level of unemployment on the current and lagged values of his variable and on two other variables which are seen as influencing the natural rate of unemployment . |
| 4 | Thirdly , by raising the level of wages above that at which they would otherwise be , the trade union movement bears a major responsibility for the high and increasing level of unemployment in the U K today . |
| 5 | This was an enlightened decision , but it can not have been easy given the high level of unemployment in the rural west , and the need to find more material resources . |
| 6 | Social factors include the general level of unemployment in the neighbourhood and whether there is a local trend for firms to shed their work force . |
| 7 | The higher the level of unemployment in the local labour market , the higher the proportion . |
| 8 | There was a clear and direct relationship between the level of unemployment in the region and the proportion of temporary workers working on this basis " involuntarily " [ see Table 4.1 ] . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current level of unemployment in the city of Leicester ; and by what numbers and what percentage it changed in 1990 . |
| 10 | He also protested at the general level of unemployment in the country and issued specific demands for the reinstatement of the standing of the Panamanian security forces which had been largely disarmed and reduced to a police force by the US-backed civilian government . |
| 11 | There is growing concern within the Government about the level of unemployment in the south-east of England and what is seen as discrimination in favour of Scotland and other areas through regional aid . |
| 12 | Much was made by Labour campaigners of the high level of unemployment among the Russian-speaking immigrants , reported as being close to 25 per cent or twice the national average , and even affecting highly qualified professionals . |
| 13 | In 1982 , the United Kingdom had the highest level of unemployment among the seven major countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 14 | Thus , the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) stated in 1985 that ‘ the best assumption for planning purposes is for a continuing high level of unemployment throughout the period ( 1985–89 ) and for a level of long-term unemployment remaining at around the one million mark . ’ |
| 15 | High levels of unemployment during the 1980s , for example , mean that labour forces in the older industrialised societies are not necessarily so expensive relative to those of the Third World . |
| 16 | Given the well-documented existence of widespread discrimination against black job-seekers it is hardly surprising that levels of unemployment within the black communities are substantially higher than those for white people . |
| 17 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |
| 18 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 19 | Increasing levels of unemployment in the recent past have revived concern over the possible relationship between unemployment and ill-health . |
| 20 | He pointed out that Northern Ireland has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the UK , at around 14pc , and the majority of households were in the lowest socio-economic groups . |