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Understanding The Fundamentals – Unemployment rate
Unemployment rate is the percentage of the labor force who doesn’t have a job but are willing and actively seeking work. It is one of the macroeconomic indicators that most fundamental analyst are observing in case of a long term investment decision and is usually published at 8:30 EST (NY) on the 1st Friday of the month.
The unemployment rate is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force.
Effects of Unemployment in the Society and Economy:
Counter-productiveness
Instead of spending their time, effort, and resources in performing a job, the unemployed part of the labor force are obligated to drain their efforts first in seeking out new jobs. The individual’s counter-productiveness may even worsen if the hunt will turn out to be a failed attempt.
Impoverishment leading to social unrest
Idle individuals have lesser financial means to dispose thus allocating most of it only on the “needs” in order to survive. In the the long run, this may result to dissatisfaction which may escalate once certain individuals started to fill-in their “wants” through dishonest means. The dishonest means which is used to gratify the “wants” may then lead to unrest in the public.
Exploitation of labor
Since there is a surplus of workers because everyone is seeking out a job, there is a high tendency that laborers will be exploited. Most company will take an advantage on this situation since laborers are forced to accept what is offered to them because of fear to lose their job. The exploitation may be in different forms like lower wages, fewer to none benefits, unpaid overtime pay, longer working hours, etc.
Less People Pay Taxes
An individual without any source of income cannot pay his dues to the government. Only those that are employed have the capability to pay the taxes and no tax is certainly a “no no” to the government. Without taxes, the economic activity will slow down because taxes is like a fuel that keeps the economy running.
Bankruptcy of Businesses
Unemployed individuals spends only for things that they needed to survive. The decrease of purchasing activity of consumers will certainly cut those companies that manufactures products that are not essential in the day-to-day activities of individuals.
Unemployment rate is the percentage of the labor force who doesn’t have a job but are willing and actively seeking work. It is one of the macroeconomic indicators that most fundamental analyst are observing in case of a long term investment decision and is usually published at 8:30 EST (NY) on the 1st Friday of the month.
The unemployment rate is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labor force.
Effects of Unemployment in the Society and Economy:
Counter-productiveness
Instead of spending their time, effort, and resources in performing a job, the unemployed part of the labor force are obligated to drain their efforts first in seeking out new jobs. The individual’s counter-productiveness may even worsen if the hunt will turn out to be a failed attempt.
Impoverishment leading to social unrest
Idle individuals have lesser financial means to dispose thus allocating most of it only on the “needs” in order to survive. In the the long run, this may result to dissatisfaction which may escalate once certain individuals started to fill-in their “wants” through dishonest means. The dishonest means which is used to gratify the “wants” may then lead to unrest in the public.
Exploitation of labor
Since there is a surplus of workers because everyone is seeking out a job, there is a high tendency that laborers will be exploited. Most company will take an advantage on this situation since laborers are forced to accept what is offered to them because of fear to lose their job. The exploitation may be in different forms like lower wages, fewer to none benefits, unpaid overtime pay, longer working hours, etc.
Less People Pay Taxes
An individual without any source of income cannot pay his dues to the government. Only those that are employed have the capability to pay the taxes and no tax is certainly a “no no” to the government. Without taxes, the economic activity will slow down because taxes is like a fuel that keeps the economy running.
Bankruptcy of Businesses
Unemployed individuals spends only for things that they needed to survive. The decrease of purchasing activity of consumers will certainly cut those companies that manufactures products that are not essential in the day-to-day activities of individuals.
Stephen Stevenson
