Example sentences of "[conj] unemployment " in BNC.

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1 The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales .
2 In her authoritative study , José Harris tells us that where unemployment was concerned , Liberal policy dealt with ‘ only an ice-berg tip ’ of the problem as it had been defined by Booth , Llewellyn Smith , Beveridge , and the Webbs .
3 Their position can be contrasted with that of people in professional occupations , where unemployment is rare , mobility is relatively easy , jobs are advertised nationally and retraining is usual .
4 The biggest challenge facing the city is to create a dynamic economy in the ex-socialist eastern districts , where unemployment is exploding , and where pay levels are at best 60 per cent of those in the west — sometimes little more than a third .
5 In extreme cases ( for example , where unemployment means no income at all ) , it can lead to starvation .
6 These were trades liable to seasonal and cyclical fluctuations , but where unemployment was neither so frequent as to be uninsurable , nor so low as to be unnecessary .
7 Thus in Greater London and the South East , where unemployment is relatively low , it is lower ( and , indeed , to man-up for some events several organisations find it necessary to bus people in from other parts of the country ) , whilst in certain northern conurbations , where unemployment is high , it rises correspondingly .
8 Thus in Greater London and the South East , where unemployment is relatively low , it is lower ( and , indeed , to man-up for some events several organisations find it necessary to bus people in from other parts of the country ) , whilst in certain northern conurbations , where unemployment is high , it rises correspondingly .
9 Where unemployment is not defined as per the Act the only common requirements within the policy wordings are that the claimant is in receipt of unemployment benefit ( or registered as unemployed with the DOE/DHSS ) and is available for/actively seeking employment .
10 Meanwhile , prostitution increases in rural areas , where unemployment has tripled and school drop-out rates for girls are soaring .
11 We need recovery in my constituency , where unemployment has risen by 39 per cent .
12 They need recovery in Huntingdon , the Prime Minister 's constituency , where unemployment has risen by 111 per cent .
13 In 1940 , Mannheim concluded : ’ Where unemployment and crime both stand at a high water mark , it can safely be assumed that the latter is largely due to the former . ’
14 In addition 1,900,000 were on short-time and around 300,000 were commuting to jobs in western Germany ( where unemployment fell slightly by the end of February to 1,870,000 or 7 per cent of the workforce ) .
15 St Leonard 's Bank falls within the boundary of the St Giles ward , where unemployment stands at 19 per cent : the problem is growing .
16 The immediate challenge to present Western labour standards , he said , could come from the former communist states , where unemployment was growing rapidly , creating a pool of accessible labour willing to accept low pay .
17 For more security and peace of mind , this low-cost insurance option guarantees your mortgage or loan repayments in the event of accident , sickness or unemployment .
18 Resistance was volatile , at times anarchist in nature ; spontaneous riots against bread prices or unemployment were short lived , providing the poor with a temporary release of tension and an opportunity to express hostility to respectability and the law .
19 Whereas most people find it relatively easy , when faced with inflation or unemployment figures , to decide whether those economic problems are improving or getting worse , it is not so easy in the case of poverty , in the absence of a clear , widely accepted measure .
20 They also claim that poverty is not alleviated by providing ever-increasing welfare benefits , but rather by providing an appropriate economic and social environment , in which individuals have the incentive and the ability to raise themselves out of poverty , without encountering the poverty or unemployment traps .
21 And if there are any rises in social security or unemployment benefit , they will be pegged to below inflation .
22 The way to make NoS popular was to put lots of people in it They could be used to bring home the sort of things which should be exposed and campaigned about in the paper — like housing conditions , or unemployment .
23 The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career .
24 Apart from fairly intangible external factors like changes in the cost of living or unemployment , the fluctuations were caused by the immediate effects of newspaper closures ( the News Chronicle and The Star in 1960 , for example ) , by price increases , and by changes such as ‘ tabloidization ’ , colour printing and the launch of weekend magazines , and by promotional gimmicks like bingo .
25 When real wages rose or unemployment fell , marriage and then fertility increased , and vice versa , roughly as Malthus claimed it would .
26 Some people fight shy of taking out a Personal Loan because they are worried about meeting the monthly repayments if they are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment .
27 To save you worrying about your monthly repayments if you are unable to work because of sickness , accident or unemployment , we have developed a special Midland FlexiLoan Protection Plan which covers your repayments for up to twelve months .
28 Nor was it seen as of such immediate economic or political importance as public health , education or unemployment .
29 The USA had no system of social security against the ravages of sickness or unemployment — no " dole " as in Britain , on which people could fall back in bad times .
30 To prevent these people becoming poor , the post-war welfare reforms enacted a series of national insurance benefits to cover those periods when people were excluded from the labour market — in old age , during sickness or unemployment .
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