Sentence examples for formally unemployed from inspiring English sources
The lucky ones land government jobs through family connections or work in a family business, "helping out" with no pay while formally unemployed.
Jobs gained by "inactive" people since 1999 have made a bigger contribution to growth in working-age employment than successful jobfinding by the formally unemployed, according to the Bank of England.
Remember that to become eligible for the program, individuals had to be formally unemployed.
In our study sample, 85% of all respondents were 'not currently working', but only 5.7% were formally unemployed.
The 5.7% of people who were formally unemployed included 15% of those aged 50 59 and 4.3% of those aged 60 69 (data not shown).
In fact, the share of individuals working informally, and the share of formally registered unemployed individuals exhibit very similar trends, as Fig. 2 shows for the period 2000 to 2006.
By the OECD's reckoning, the ranks of those who could be mobilised are thus far bigger than those that are formally classed as unemployed.
Education could also be a potential effect modifier; however, too few men with higher education became unemployed between the two surveys to assess this formally.
Most participants were unemployed at the time of the interview (15 out of 22), two were formally employed and on paid maternity leave, and the remaining five participants were doing casual, part-time work such as braiding hair, selling goods in a market and packing boxes.
The French president Nicolas Sarkozy has formally launched his battle for re-election, promising to grant the public a referendum on how to get France's growing unemployed off benefits.
