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unemployment

Also known as joblessness

thumb|upright=2|Unemployment rate, 2021

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Research

20,906 papers

Financial Stress, Unemployment, and Suicide - A Meta-Analysis.Crisis · 2023Roelfs DJ, Shor EDOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000908
Unemployment among young people and mental health: A systematic review.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2020Bartelink VHM, Zay Ya K, Guldbrandsson K et al.DOI: 10.1177/1403494819852847
Does unemployment lead to greater levels of loneliness? A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Morrish N, Medina-Lara ADOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114339
Association Between Unemployment and Mental Disorders: A Narrative Update of the Literature.ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Franke AG, Schmidt P, Neumann SDOI: 10.3390/ijerph21121698
[Cancer and unemployment].ReviewSemergen · 2016Lastra-del-Prado R, Rodríguez-García J, Muñoz Cifuentes P et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.semerg.2015.05.010
Long-Term Unemployment: A Social Determinant Underaddressed Within Community Behavioral Health Programs.ReviewPsychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2020Marrone J, Swarbrick MADOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201900522
Unemployment as a chronic stressor: A systematic review of cortisol studies.Psychology & health · 2017Sumner RC, Gallagher SDOI: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1247841
Unemployment and health.ReviewBritish journal of nursing (Mark Allen Publishing) · 1995Cooper SDOI: 10.12968/bjon.1995.4.10.566

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: social issue

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opposite of: employment
topic's main category: Category:Unemployment
Commons category: Unemployment
has effect: psychological stress
has characteristic: unemployment rate
ICPC 2 ID: Z06
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
described by source: Pax Leksikon

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Encyclopedic overview

41 sections

Contents

Causes
Definitions, types, and theories
Real wage unemployment
Cyclical unemployment
Full employment
Structural unemployment
Frictional unemployment
Hidden unemployment
Long-term unemployment
Marxian theory of unemployment
Labor force participation rate
Unemployment-to-population ratio
NEET
Youth and young adult unemployment
Measurement
European Union (Eurostat)
United States Bureau of Labor statistics
Limitations of definition
Effects
Costs
Individual
Gender and age
Social
Political
Benefits
Decline in work hours
Remedies
Demand-side solutions
Supply-side solutions
Labour market flexibility
History
16th century
Industrial Revolution to late 19th century
20th century
21st century
See also
Notes
References
Historical: Europe and Japan
Historical: United States
External links

thumb|upright=2|Unemployment rate, 2021

Unemployment is the state of not being in paid employment or self-employment but rather currently available for work. Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force (the total number of people employed above a specified age added to those unemployed) during the reference period.

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