hidden unemployment

"We had a lot of hidden unemployment in the company, with two men doing work that should have been handled by one."

True enough, there used to be some hidden unemployment in East Germany.

They apparently have a lot of hidden unemployment they want to conceal.

The hidden unemployment poses a number of challenges for Americans trying to rebuild Iraq.

There are also many controversies about hidden unemployment.

Official statistics often underestimate unemployment rates because of hidden unemployment.

Unemployment is rising constantly and exceeds 10%, not counting hidden unemployment.

Iraq's hidden unemployment was particularly visible at the state electrical company, which makes lighting equipment and motors for air-cooling systems.

Hidden unemployment means that people are not counted or considered as unemployed, although in reality they are unemployed.

As many speakers have already mentioned, we have 18 million people out of work and many different forms of hidden unemployment.

But the figure disguises "hidden unemployment, " with up to 15 percent of working-age men claiming sickness and other benefits not registered in the statistics.

I am not talking about hidden unemployment in this case, but the fact that the UK is the country creating the highest number of low-paid, parttime jobs.

Some additional types of unemployment that are occasionally mentioned are seasonal unemployment, hardcore unemployment, and hidden unemployment.

To the extent that hidden unemployment exists, it implies that official unemployment statistics provide a poor guide to what unemployment rate coincides with "full employment".

Hidden unemployment, Nanjing University recently estimated, could be as high as 14 percent among the urban workers and number of jobless rural laborers is approaching 150 million.

Neither is the hidden unemployment that exists among the 14.9 million people who were listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in November as working part time voluntarily.

Heavily agricultural, with little industry, this area east and southeast of Bialystok has an average income only about 65 percent of the national average, and a lot of hidden unemployment on the farm.

However, the unemployment rate of women is very high compared to men with the same educational background (80% of all unemployed in Ukraine are women), not to mention the extensive hidden unemployment among women.

In big industrial centers, women are being encouraged to use up their three-year maternity leaves or to retire on maternity benefits, workers are offered long vacations at half-pay, or shorter work weeks - all forms of what experts here call "hidden unemployment."

(This is called "hidden unemployment," which is sometimes seen as a kind of underemployment Worker cooperative-such as those producing plywood in the U.S. Pacific Northwest-do not let their members become unemployed unless the co-op itself goes bankrupt.

We are all aware that one very frequent feature of cross-border areas is a higher than average unemployment rate, however, with significant interregional differences, as well as a high level of hidden unemployment caused by the lack of people out of work signing on.

"Overstaffing" or "hidden unemployment" (also called "labor hoarding"), the practice in which businesses or entire economies employ workers who are not fully occupied-for example, workers currently not being used to produce goods or services due to legal or social restrictions or because the work is highly seasonal.

As a general practice, discouraged workers who often classified as "marginally attached to the labor force", "on the margins" of the labour force, or as part of "hidden unemployment" are not considered to be part of the labor force and are thus not counted in most official unemployment rates, which could result in flawed statistics.

The demise of 'smokestack' industries left a legacy of high unemployment, and although unemployment has declined in recent years, unemployment in West Wales and the Valleys still tends to be higher than the Welsh average and economic inactivity (a form of hidden unemployment) continues to be a major problem in these areas.