Unemployment & the UK Labour Market - Teacher Presentation
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
This updated revision presentation examines the key issues involved with rising unemployment in the UK labour market. It looks at new data on the causes and consequences of UK unemployment and also touches on the regional, gender and other differences in the experience of unemployment - there is a set of right up to date charts on these aspects.
Launch interactive presentation on UK unemployment
Download printable pdf version of the slides
Huge Job Shedding
Monday, June 22, 2009
Since the recession began the economy has shed more than 400,000 jobs - in this excellent short BBC news video, Stephanie Flanders looks at the impact of the rising scale of unemployment including the pressure on government finances.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
We were discussing causes of unemployment in an AS Macro lesson today. This brief handout and quick quiz was used to cement some of the causes such as frictional, cyclical and structural. I have uploaded it in word format in case it is of any use.
Student Handout
Types_of_Unemployment.doc
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