SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Discouraged Worker, Employment-To-Population Ratio, Where We Are
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How many want to work but don"t have the jobs, and cant the jobs. Definitions and differences of participation rate, employment rate, unemployment. Recent changes over time in canadian rates. Working is a key way of defining something. Someone not working can be a big problem. Working gives you a sense of where you belong. It"s important where we see ourselves and how we define it. By a joining a religious cult, or a drug gang defines where you fit in. Paid work: somebody pays you to work. Unpaid work: unpaid work is common, volunteering work is common here. 15 years old and above: government defines somebody as 15 as those who are unable to work, it takes child labor out of the equation. Makes it possible to make comparisons across countries & time. Three groups: those who are employed in paid work-economically active, the unemployed:
