Discouraged worker
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discouraged-worker-180-14556408
title:
Discouraged worker
text:
In economics, a discouraged worker is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment or who has not found employment after long-term unemployment, but who would prefer to be working. This is usually because an individual has given up looking, hence the term "discouraged". A discouraged worker, since not actively seeking employment, has fallen out of the core statistics of the unemployment rate since they are neither working nor job-seeking. Their giving up on job-seeking
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discouraged_worker
date created:
2003-12-02T21:05:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T16:16:12Z
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