We pay due attention to all matters concerning youth, particularly the unemployed segment of our young population.

The fact that youth unemployment is just a part of a larger problem leads to the real policy question Why should officials spend limited time, energy, and public funding specifically on unemployed young people, rather than on all of the unemployed?

The sharp increase in youth unemployment (38 million young people half of the world's jobless youth) and the implications of the tsunami disaster represent new development challenges for the region.

The frustration of unemployed and under employed youth is now spilling over into the streets.

I mean the unemployed, the under privileged.

A successful transition would give real opportunities to a generation of unemployed young people, thus enabling them to take responsibility for their futures and the future of the region.

The unemployment rate was 11.3 in 2006.

The ECOWAS secretariat, in collaboration with UNDP and the Mano River Union, is implementing a programme focused on the reintegration of unemployed youth and the participation of youth in peace processes.

This programme, which aims, inter alia, to discourage the departure of the young abroad, covers graduates registered as unemployed with the Bureau.

So the perverse result of this way of counting the unemployed is that the more young people who pursue additional education or training, the higher the youth unemployment rate rises.

Once the crisis became a sad daily reality for millions of unemployed particularly for what appears to be a lost generation of young, jobless Europeans EU institutions also became a target of popular rage.

It plans for employment of 1,000 young unemployed persons.

Women are 46.3 per cent of the total unemployed population.

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

Other initiatives have been established to scale up these efforts by engaging multiple companies to create entry level positions for the significant number of young people who are currently unemployed.

In calculating youth unemployment, therefore, the same number of unemployed individuals is divided by a much smaller number, to reflect the smaller labor force, which makes the unemployment rate look a lot higher.

On the other hand, 28 per cent of the unemployed are poor, but the unemployed represent one third of the total number of the poor.

This was the pattern of the long term unemployed in the Great Depression.

The construction industry was paralyzed with tens of thousands of laborers out of work.

In an extreme attempt to address his country s job shortage, Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho recently urged his country s young unemployed to emigrate to Portugal s former colonies, such as Brazil or Angola.

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.

Skills were lost, and the hard core of unemployed were stigmatized and demoralized.

The number of unemployed people is forecast to be 65,000 in 2015.

While standard measures exaggerate youth unemployment, they likely understate adult unemployment, because those who have given up their job search are not counted among the unemployed.

This includes training retraining for the unemployed, workers in mass layoffs and youth to increase the quantity of work supply.

As a result, the burden of the crisis is being borne mainly by the unemployed and the young.

There were 1.2 million unemployed people in Canada during 2004.

Another worry is that the crisis will create a hard core of long term unemployed whose skills atrophy and who become stigmatized in the eyes of potential employers.

On the other hand, active programs focus on directly increasing the access of unemployed workers.

Roughly 12 million people will enter the African workforce each year in the next decade but, even today, young people account for 60 of all unemployed. Creating a sufficient number of rewarding jobs is a substantial challenge.

Second, reintegrating the unemployed even into a smoothly functioning market economy would prove to be very difficult.

It was also the pattern of the long term unemployed in Western Europe at the end of the 1980s.

The need for growth specifically, the kind of inclusive growth that can provide jobs for the vast number of out of work young people and combat rising levels of income inequality has never been more vital.

It was also the pattern of the long term unemployed in Western Europe at the end of the 1980s. And, in a year or two, it will be the pattern again for the long term unemployed in the North Atlantic region.

Unemployed war veterans and disabled persons can rarely implement their rights to employment in conditions of severe general unemployment.

There is apparently no shortage of young, unemployed men willing to join the carnage.

In the case of Greece and Portugal, for example, the tourism industry might absorb some unemployed retailers.

Targeting liquidity constrained people, especially the unemployed, is a bit more effective, as well as humane.

As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.

Like the unemployed, they do not want a political party devoted to their plight.

Number of unemployed and retired persons combined exceeded number of employed in August 2010, as it fell to 1.474 million.

In developed nations, the number of the working poor reached 10 15 of the workforce, with another 5 10 of unemployed workers and 5 10 dropping out of the labor market altogether.

Under the Employment Insurance Act, the Canada Employment Insurance Commission has established Employment Benefits and Support Measures (EBSM) that provide active measures designed to assist unemployed Canadians return to work.

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

Over reliance on market mechanisms contributed to jobless growth, the gradual collapse of public services and the deepening of poverty and inequality.8 There are, however, growing signs of a turnaround.