If the economy is at potential, the unemployment rate equals the NAIRU or the natural rate of unemployment.

Unemployment rate was 10 .

The high unemployment rate among women was a reflection of Latvia's overall unemployment rate, which stood at 10.6 per cent.

As of 2007, the city's unemployment rate is 9.4 .

The unemployment rate was 11.3 in 2006.

In October 2011, unemployment rate was 17.4 .

The current system underpins Spain s soaring unemployment rate.

In October 2011, unemployment rate stood at 17.4 .

In 2001 and 2002 the unemployment rate dropped.

Labor market experts thus consider the unemployment rate a potentially misleading indicator, because a youth unemployment rate of 50 does not mean that half of the young population is unemployed. That is why one should look at the unemployment ratio the percentage of the unemployed in the reference population rather than at the unemployment rate.

At the start of 1996, the US unemployment rate was 5.6 .

The Commission is encouraged by the reduction of the unemployment rate.

Germany s unemployment rate this past summer was around 5.5 , and its youth unemployment rate was around 8 remarkably low compared with many other high income economies.

Indeed, the official unemployment rate understates the weakness of the labor market.

Women have a slightly higher unemployment rate (7.4 ) than men.

Thus, monetary authorities should simply focus on price stability by targeting the rate of unemployment at which inflation does not increase, referred to as the non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

Sixteen years after the crisis, the unemployment rate was 6.2 more than triple the rate in 1990.

And, according to Greenspan s successor, Ben Bernanke, there is no reason to assume that the unemployment rate will approach 5 generally considered to be the natural rate of unemployment any time soon.

Hundreds of factories have closed, driving up the unemployment rate to nearly 30 .

As a result, the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 of the labor force.

Using RMB appreciation as the primary tool to fight inflation implies accepting a temporarily higher unemployment rate now in exchange for a permanently lower unemployment rate in the future.

Unemployment, moreover, is rising at its fastest rate in seven years.

The unemployment rate, according to government statistics, was 1.5 in 2005.

For example, Spain s 48.9 youth unemployment rate implies significantly worse conditions for young people than its 19 youth unemployment ratio.

Unemployment gap between Jews and Palestinians in Israel Since 1996, the overall unemployment rate in Israel has been rising steadily.

So the high share of government employment contributes to the region s low unemployment rate.

The Bedouin population has a high rate of unemployment and low socio economic state.

The unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in 2010, and inflation was last calculated at 1.2 percent rate in 2003.

In 2000, the unemployment rate for young males aged 15 24 was 15.7 the rate for women was 16.8 .

Likewise, Spain s unemployment rate is above 25 (and 55 for young people).

Brazil s unemployment rate, for example, is at lows not seen for decades.

Greece s youth unemployment rate now exceeds 60 , and Spain s is above 50 .

By contrast, the US unemployment rate has almost doubled, now approaching 10 .

But the next leader of the Fed should be committed to ensuring that America s unemployment rate falls below its current unacceptably high level an unemployment rate of 7 or even 6 should not be viewed as inevitable.

Among those in the 20 24 age group, the difference between the reported unemployment rate and the percentage of youth without a job and looking for one (the unemployment ratio) is less stark. But, even among this age group, one finds that the unemployment ratio is often about one half of the widely reported unemployment rate.

The Fed s goal of pushing the unemployment rate down to 6.5 is a noble one.

Although the number of unemployed people remains at 20, the unemployment rate quadruples, to 40 .

So the Fed could, in principle, decide to raise the federal funds rate even before the unemployment rate reaches 6.5 .

The unemployment rate remains more than two percentage points above the normal rate (when the economy is operating near capacity).

The increase derived, usually, from the greater numbers of divorces and the higher rate of unemployment.

The unemployment rate, especially among disadvantaged groups young people and women is staggering.

Indeed, in advanced economies, the unemployment rate will be above 10 by 2010.

This time, the unemployment rate and household and government debt are much higher.

The unemployment rate will peak above 10 in most other advanced economies, too.

Krueger s analysis indicates that the rate of inflation begins to increase when the short term unemployment rate falls to 4 4.5 . With short term unemployment currently at 4.2 , the inflation rate is indeed rising, and Krueger s research suggests that it will increase further in the months ahead.