SOC227H5 Lecture : Workforce activity
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>don"t count work for people age fifteen and under. > for those aged fifteen and up, list into three categories: Don"t have a job, but looking for one, called unemployed. Someone in this category has either been looking for work in the past four weeks, start a job in the next four weeks, or laid off until called back. They don"t have a job and not looking. Source: statistics canada lfs, table 282-00002: unreported work. >population of those fifteen or older who are employed or who are looking for work. > use and interpretation: measures peoples individual attitudes reflects beliefs in finding satisfactory job. > picks up perceptions of the health of the economy. >discouraged workers: could participate but don"t believe they can find a job, this also includes injured workers and students at school. >cultural influences: women should not be working, importance to education: unemployment rate. Part rate: gets this transition misses this transition.
