Employment & Unemployment

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Across
  1. 4. Measure of unemployment counted by the number of people claiming unemployment-related benefits
  2. 5. Unemployment resulting from the decline in an industry which leaves people unemployed because they do not have the skills needed by industries that are growing
  3. 6. Type of unemployment whereby individuals choose not to accept a job at the going wage rate
  4. 8. Type of policies that aim to reduce the natural rate of unemployment
  5. 15. The rate of unemployment consistent with stable inflation
  6. 16. Type of policies that aim to reduce cyclical unemployment
  7. 17. Proportion of the economically active population who are unemployed
  8. 19. When people want to work full time but find that they can only get part-time work
  9. 20. Type of unemployment caused by workers only being able to work during certain periods of the year
  10. 21. Number of people employed and unemployed as a proportion of the population of working age
  11. 22. Level of unemployment that exists within an economy even at full employment
  12. 23. Measure of unemployment counted by a quarterly survey sent to 44,000 households to gather data regarding employment circumstances
  13. 24. Shows a possible trade-off between inflation and unemployment
  14. 25. Type of unemployment caused by workers seeking a better job; or who are in-between jobs, or new entrants to the labour market
Down
  1. 1. People not employed or unemployed; they are not looking for a job or available to start work
  2. 2. A situation where a worker is willing to work at the going wage rate but cannot find a job
  3. 3. Theory that wages above the market clearing equilibrium may cause this type of unemployment
  4. 7. Type of unemployment caused by a persistent lack of aggregate demand for goods and services
  5. 9. Difficulties in learning new skills applicable to a new industry, and technological change
  6. 10. When a sustained period of low aggregate demand can lead to a loss of skills and longer-term unemployment as a result
  7. 11. A situation where everyone who wants to work has a job
  8. 12. When the prospect of the loss of unemployment benefits dissuades those without work from taking a new job
  9. 13. Difficulty in moving regions / areas to get a job
  10. 14. A person who has been unemployed for 12 months or more
  11. 18. All people who are of working age, and able and willing to work. It includes both the employed, and the unemployed