The labor force participation rate refers to the share of the population aged 15 years and over who are economically active. Unemployed people actively searching for work are included, whereas the long-term unemployed (economically inactive) are not. It is calculated by dividing the total number ...
The nightmare scenario of the transition countries producing a first generation of long-term unemployed, disaffected adults, dependent on either welfare or crime, rearing further generations of heavily disadvantaged children, by when, it is feared, the chronically unemployed ...