Unemployment FALLS this month!!!!!!!

skap7309

Joeskeppi wrote: »

Love the next 4 posts after this, falling unemployment is a disaster for some people.

No, these posters were not complaining about falling unemployment - they were mentioning just how silly McHammy can be. Unemployment in young people fell by a figure so tiny it is not worth mentioning - OVERALL unemployment ROSE BY 88 TIMES THIS FIGURE!!

StevieJ

Joeskeppi wrote: »

Love the next 4 posts after this, falling unemployment is a disaster for some people.

JK, know what you mean :eek:

Really2

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Thats the point, once they go into education they are not unemployed any more and come off the register.

You can not claim unemployment if you are in-between school and university.

I don't think you can anyway as you have not or not intending to work.

So anyone who as left school is not down as unemployed.

ruggedtoast

Really2 wrote: »

You can not claim unemployment if you are in-between school and university.

I don't think you can anyway as you have not or not intending to work.

So anyone who as left school is not down as unemployed.

If someone leaves school and goes on the dole while they apply for work they are classed as unemployed.

If after a year or two of being unemployed they get fed up and go back into education they are no longer unemployed.

Edit - the application numbers have been tremendous from young people who would never normally have applied to study but have found the labour market to be utterly closed to them.

This has had far more effect on reducing dole claimants since last month than any illusory increase in jobs.

Really2

ruggedtoast wrote: »

If someone leaves school and goes on the dole while they apply for work they are classed as unemployed.

If after a year or two of being unemployed they get fed up and go back into education they are no longer unemployed.

This has had far more effect on reducing dole claimants since last month than any illusory increase in jobs.

Sorry you were not clear on that point, I thought you meant the school leavers this year.

StevieJ

ruggedtoast wrote: »

If someone leaves school and goes on the dole while they apply for work they are classed as unemployed.

If after a year or two of being unemployed they get fed up and go back into education they are no longer unemployed.

Edit - the application numbers have been tremendous from young people who would never normally have applied to study but have found the labour market to be utterly closed to them.

This has had far more effect on reducing dole claimants since last month than any illusory increase in jobs.

Wait a minute, surely there are a finite number of University places

neas

comment on sky news says same thing.... with xmas temp jobs and student entry to new term year more become non-employed but not truly employed as you think. wait till feb

StevieJ

neas wrote: »

comment on sky news says same thing.... with xmas temp jobs and student entry to new term year more become non-employed but not truly employed as you think. wait till feb

Ah the winter bounce

Rochdale_Pioneers

kabayiri wrote: »

Oh no, not that old chestnut.

There is no global, just a bunch of losers and a bunch of winners. At the moment we seem to be in the losers camp.

We are? So having less unemployment makes us losers does it? From my old friend Eurostat:

Spain: 18.9%
Latvia: 18.3%
Lithuania: 13.7%
Estonia: 13.3%
Ireland: 12.5%
Slovakia: 11.6%
France: 9.9%
Hungary: 9.6%
Sweden: 9.4%
EL(?): 9.2%
Portugal: 9.1%
EU Average: 9.1%
Finland: 8.7%
Poland: 8.0%
Belgium: 7.9%
UK: 7.8%
Germany: 7.7%
Italy: 7.4%

I ask again - what is is that we are doing right in the UK to protect jobs that the majority of Europe are failing to do? In a sane world, some of you would recognise that the answer involves government policies and actually give the government some credit for the job it is doing.

In a sane world. But Brown-frothers are not sane. Its not a global event. Its not a recession across the whole of the developed world. Its not hit countries regardless of the size of their housing market or their system of bank regulation. No. Its just in the UK, and its all Brown's fault.

nembot

Regardless of my differing opinions with the OP, it is certainly good news to see the numbers fall in comparison to the previous quarter, albeit slightly.

Whether this is due to seasonal factors or not, the fact is a number of families will have a lot less to worry about this xmas hopefully and this is a good thing!