Since recipients of disability insurance are classified as out-of-labor-force instead of unemployed, the unemployment rate would be smaller in countries with a generous disability insurance system.
Pakistan lies between middle to low income countries with over one-twelfth of labor force is unemployed, over one third of the population subsists in poverty and over half the population is illiterate, with parts of the country being worse than what the national average indicates [ 20].
Yes, 9.2 percent of the American work force is unemployed — but 90.8 percent of it is working.
Pakistan lies between middle to low income countries with over one-twelfth of labor force unemployed, where over one fifth of the population subsides in poverty and over half of the population is illiterate [ 15].
Over the course of 1980, 18.1 percent of the labor force was unemployed at some point.
But as almost 10 percent of the labor force remains unemployed, such cuts would instead be the height of fiscal irresponsibility.
A smaller share of the work force is unemployed today than was unemployed after the recessions of the early 1980's and 90's, but most of the decline has come among people out of work for a few weeks at a time.
Some 250,000 Palestinians, or 38percentt of the work force, are unemployed, compared with 11percentt for the first nine months of 2,000.
In the years immediately following independence, about two-fifths of the labour force was unemployed, with rural areas especially affected, and about one-third of Kosovo's citizens lived below the poverty line.
In February 2001, only 1.6percentt of college graduates in the labor force were unemployed, compared with 7.4percentt of workers who did not finish high school.
