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Unemployment Rates

Darkdale

Darkdale

World Leader Pretend
European unemployment rates fall
Strong job creation in Germany and Spain pushed European unemployment rates lower in May, Eurostat data show.
Both saw unemployment rates drop from double-digit figures: Germany's unemployment rate fell from 10% to 9.6% and Spain's to 9.9% from 10%.

In both the EU at large and in the smaller eurozone, the unemployment rate fell to 8.8% in May from 8.9% in April.

In the 25 EU member states there were 19.1 million job seekers, 12.8 million of them in the eurozone.

Unemployment rates are high when compared with the US, where the unemployment rate is 5.1%, and Japan, where the rate is 4.4%.

And in Europe's two biggest economies, Germany and France, high unemployment has become a political issue.

Lengthy battle

Friday's data follows a report released earlier this week, which showed German business confidence had improved for the first time in five months.



Schroeder loses confidence vote



The recent fall in the euro sparked fresh optimism among German firms.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's proposed economic reforms have however met with much resistance, where unemployment hit its highest level since the 1930s earlier this year.

On Friday, Mr Schroeder lost a confidence vote in parliament, paving the way for its dissolution and early elections, as he wanted.

"If we are to continue with this agenda, legitimacy through new elections is required," Mr Schroeder said.

In neighbouring France, where the unemployment rate it at a five-year peak of 10.2%, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has made the battle against unemployment a priority.
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Japan has one of the best Unemployment Rates in the world. Does anyone know why? What are the Japanese doing that the rest of us are not?
 
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world nonpotent

Member
In Japan one commits himself to the common effort of production and at the same time environmental ethics applied. A lot that may conflict, but I believe the common understanding of a professional working bore or idealist there accepts the understanding as unsolved. In nature there is posited the "UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTION". Over-all people may disagree with each other in two revalations the physical and the mental. The mental is well resolvable, and further NEEDS to be agreed upon; that's why in Japan the heated parlaimentary discussions. But with the physical revalation disagreements are left to the BOSS.:(


That's why the arguments for and against common decisions for or against production are left till afteer the job is done. Taking care of nature is an issue of will and effort; then the truth of environemtal ethics is sought.:)
 
lilithu

lilithu

The Devil's Advocate
Darkdale said:
Japan has one of the best Unemployment Rates in the world. Does anyone know why? What are the Japanese doing that the rest of us are not?
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Working. :p
 
standing_on_one_foot

standing_on_one_foot

Well-Known Member
Darkdale said:
From: Unemployment Rates

Japan has one of the best Unemployment Rates in the world. Does anyone know why? What are the Japanese doing that the rest of us are not?
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Making high quality cars and electronics and strange cartoons and toilets that sing to you? (not kidding about that last one, either)
 
Pah

Pah

Uber all member
Darkdale said:
From: Unemployment Rates

Japan has one of the best Unemployment Rates in the world. Does anyone know why? What are the Japanese doing that the rest of us are not?
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I'm not sure this follows from what was intended in the opening post. But to answer the question as I understand the answer is that there exists in Japan a mutual respect between employer and employee. Although it has declined a bit, that translates into a "job for life" when the work force is seriously thought of as being family
 
Darkdale

Darkdale

World Leader Pretend
Pah said:
I'm not sure this follows from what was intended in the opening post. But to answer the question as I understand the answer is that there exists in Japan a mutual respect between employer and employee. Although it has declined a bit, that translates into a "job for life" when the work force is seriously thought of as being family
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That seems noble... I can't imagine ever seeing that in the United States. No one is loyal... employee or employer.
 
jamaesi

jamaesi

To Save A Lamb
Well screw that. I'll stand in an unemployment line.
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Teehee. : )



Actually sashimi is very good- it has more flavour than cooked fish. To me all cooked fish just... tastes the same. Fishy.

And Japanese was so much easier for me to learn than Portuguese, but the Brasilians never believe me about that.



I´m not really sure, so I´m going to look up employment in Japan. I think it´s probably due to their falling birthrate and society (work and fit in or hari-kiri!).

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Well, what I´ve been finding is the way Japanese count jobs is different- if they went by USA standards their unemployment would be much higher. And that´s the way Japanese society works, they do things in strange ways (to us, I suppose) even if it´s not quite efficient- and come hell or high water, they are not going to change!

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1984/03/art3exc.htm
 
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