In Poland you are not counted as unemployed in statistics if you are not registered in job office. And the job offices do a multitude of tricks to make people unregister (mainly they waste tons of your time and money forcing you to answer very dubious offers in far away locations), so even in the very shit 2000's they were patting their backs because "unemployment was falling".
The US government does a similar slight of hand in that if you’re unemployed for long enough they assume you’ve “left the job market” and no longer count as unemployed.
In Denmark they used to hide youth unemployment by forcing unemployed youths into education they had no interest in and they were not able to complete. Young men were sent to trade schools, young women were sent to social and healthcare caretaker school. The result was that the young people wasted their time and experienced new educational defeats while also making it harder for teachers to teach and for other students to learn and giving these schools a reputation as "loser schools".
Yep, pretty much all western countries do this. When you look into the statistics, the requirements to be counted as 'unemployed' are always unexpectedly stringent, and the real figure is typically anywhere between 2x-10x higher than reported.
If you're in the UK and not employed but actively seeking employment, if you want to count towards the 'unemployed' figure, you typically need to be housing yourself, you must be looking for a minimum of ~20 hours a week of work, you can't be casually employed (even if you work an average of ~0 hours a week), you can't have been unemployed for less than one month nor for over 6 months, you can't have most recently been a student, you can't be volunteering, you can't be minding children regularly, the list goes on.
If you want the accurate number of "people who are actively looking for meaningful employment because they need money", you're out of luck.
Do any of these guys ever admit that unemployment is down because so many people are stringing together multiple jobs to try to make rent?
In Poland you are not counted as unemployed in statistics if you are not registered in job office. And the job offices do a multitude of tricks to make people unregister (mainly they waste tons of your time and money forcing you to answer very dubious offers in far away locations), so even in the very shit 2000's they were patting their backs because "unemployment was falling".
The US government does a similar slight of hand in that if you’re unemployed for long enough they assume you’ve “left the job market” and no longer count as unemployed.
In Denmark they used to hide youth unemployment by forcing unemployed youths into education they had no interest in and they were not able to complete. Young men were sent to trade schools, young women were sent to social and healthcare caretaker school. The result was that the young people wasted their time and experienced new educational defeats while also making it harder for teachers to teach and for other students to learn and giving these schools a reputation as "loser schools".
Mandatory education? Zenz would spin it into Danish genocide.
It also doesn’t count people who’ve given up looking for work. Double whammy
Yep, pretty much all western countries do this. When you look into the statistics, the requirements to be counted as 'unemployed' are always unexpectedly stringent, and the real figure is typically anywhere between 2x-10x higher than reported.
If you're in the UK and not employed but actively seeking employment, if you want to count towards the 'unemployed' figure, you typically need to be housing yourself, you must be looking for a minimum of ~20 hours a week of work, you can't be casually employed (even if you work an average of ~0 hours a week), you can't have been unemployed for less than one month nor for over 6 months, you can't have most recently been a student, you can't be volunteering, you can't be minding children regularly, the list goes on.
If you want the accurate number of "people who are actively looking for meaningful employment because they need money", you're out of luck.
Jobs = good economy
More jobs = more gooder economy
Do I get one of those pretend Nobel prizes for economists now?
Depends, how many rich white dudes do you know?