unemployment
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Discuss the economic consequences of unemployment? In this essay the economic benefits and consequences of unemployment will be discussed. Unemployment can be defined as the percentage of the working age group willing and able to find employment but without work. It can be separated into five categories; cyclical deficient, classical, structural, frictional and seasonal unemployment. There are two methods for measuring unemployment. Firstly, the claimant count measure adds up all those claiming unemployment benefits. It is cheap and easy to collect however; it is not very accurate and exaggerates the unemployed figure as many claimants are untruthful thus exaggerating the unemployment rate. In contrast the International Labour Organisation measure is more expensive but also more accurate. The main advantage of the ILO is that it can be compared with other countries directly. Firstly, unemployment will lead to an economy producing under the PPC showing inefficiency and a waste of resources which...

