Independent Samoa is about to get poorer as well, faced with both the loss of remittances and the prospect of thousands returning home unemployed.
They work hard, save assiduously, send money home and if they lose their job, they often don't go back, because they cannot face the shame of returning home unemployed and no longer supporting their families.
24% of returning vets are unemployed.
Without connections in Kabul, Mohammadkhail has been unemployed since returning to Afghanistan two years ago.
They are looking well beyond the registered unemployed: mothers returning to work; students; retired people; even, says the council's Simon Quin, some ex-prisoners.
Education is one of the few areas of the economy that has been expanding, partly because so many of the unemployed are returning to school.
"It won't take them long to lose their bellies," said Samer Songserm, the 56-year-old wizened headman of this small village who has counted 10 unemployed workers returning from Bangkok over the past two months.
The best moments of "Unemployed Superstar," returning on Friday and Sept. 8 and 11 at Joe's Pub at 425 Lafayette Street in the East Village, are its nonmusical monologues in which Queen Esther impersonates embittered neighbors she met when she moved to Harlem.
For unemployed individuals returning to a new job, the average unemployment duration is 16.2 months, and their average reentry wages of 1,226 euros imply a 10% decrease relative to their previous wages (1,358 euros, on average).
Ms. Jimenez, who is still unemployed, returned to school last summer to become a registered nurse and obtain an associate's degree at LaGuardia Community College.
