unemployment
Let an agent explain unemployment statistics and types with sources, help people find benefits, job search support and training, and respond supportively to the personal impact of job loss.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain unemployment statistics and types with sources, help people find benefits, job search support and training, and respond supportively to the personal impact of job loss.
The state of people who are without paid work, available for work and actively seeking it, as defined by the International Labour Organization; unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate and includes frictional, structural, cyclical and long-term forms.
What it is for: Economic measurement, social policy and personal support.
It can be find official unemployment statistics with dates; explain ILO definitions and types of unemployment; find benefits and job search services; find support for wellbeing after job loss.
Distinguishing features
Without work but seeking it
Defined by the ILO
Measured by surveys and registers
Social and personal impacts
What it looks like
Not physical; shown in labour market statistics and experienced by people seeking work.
How it is recognised
Unemployment rates and claimant counts
Job centres and employment services
Economically inactive people are not counted as unemployed
Related models
is a kind of - category
is measured by - method
is addressed by - service
is related to - support
In practice
Families and kinds
frictional unemployment
structural unemployment
cyclical unemployment
long-term unemployment
youth unemployment
Standards and regulation
ILO resolutions on labour statistics
National unemployment insurance and benefit law
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing claimant counts with ILO unemployment
Stigmatising unemployed people
Missing distress after job loss
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.unemployment
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Statistics Measurement.
Definitions matter.
Rate
Unemployment rate.
Rate
Unemployment rate.
- What is the unemployment rate here, according to which source and period? provenance
- Is it the ILO measure or a claimant count? boundary
Types
Kinds of unemployment.
Types
Types.
- Is this frictional, structural or cyclical unemployment? definition
- Which indicators show it? provenance
Support Benefits and services.
Help is available.
Benefits
Income support.
Benefits
Benefits.
- Which unemployment benefits might be available here, and how is a claim made? provenance
- What deadlines apply? provenance
Jobs
Job search.
Jobs
Job search.
- Which employment services and training programmes can help? provenance
- How can a CV be improved? action
Well-being Personal impact.
Support matters.
Distress
Emotional support.
Distress
Emotional support.
- Is the person very distressed or at risk after losing work? boundary
- Which support services or crisis lines should be offered? action
Money
Money worries.
Money
Money worries.
- Is the person struggling with bills or debt? boundary
- Which free debt advice services exist? provenance
Policy Economics.
Policy debates need balance.
Causes
Economic causes.
Causes
Economic causes.
- What do economists say drives unemployment in this case? provenance
- Are views attributed? boundary
Language
Respectful language.
Language
Respectful language.
- Is the language free of stigma about unemployed people? boundary
- Does it rely on evidence? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should types be separate entries?
- How should national statistics be linked?
- How should benefit rules be localised?