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The Sun Employment – Frictional Unemployment

Jim Riley

4th October 2009

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One of the best ways of reducing frictional unemployment is to provide people with information about what jobs are available. Usually this is provided by the Job Centre but the government has got a surprise helper in the form of the Sun Newspaper. They have made it their ambition to get people back to work by providing an online service with over 3000 jobs advertised, e-mail alerts and even the option of uploading your CV. Clearly there are still jobs out there if you know where to look. Click read more for some questions on unemployment.

1. Explain one other way of reducing frictional unemployment (3 marks)

2. Explain two other types of unemployment. (4 marks)

3. State two ways in which unemployment can be measured. (2 marks)

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.