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Mitt Romney must be very careful in how he attacks Barack Obama in the foreign policy debate.
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Tue, Jun 18, 2013 | 09:19 BST
The Cave: Ron Gilbert's puzzler is heading to iOS
The Cave is heading to iOS formats, and Sega will be handling porting duties for Ron Gilbert's subterranean adventure-puzzler.
Fri, Jun 07, 2013 | 17:17 BST
SEGA announces E3 2013 line-up
SEGA has announced its E3 line-up, and the firm is bringing five titles to the expo next week. SEGA's full line-up includes: Sonic Lost World (Wii U, 3DS) out this Holiday; Castle of Illusion (PC, PSN, XBLA) out this summer; Company of Heroes 2 (PC); Total War: Rome 2 (PC); and The Cave (mobile). This will be the first publish showing of both the new Sonic title and the mobile version of Double Fine's The Cave.
Mon, Apr 08, 2013 | 10:04 BST
Nintendo Europe downloads: indie games get big sale this week
Nintendo has released its weekly list of Wii U and 3DS digital offerings, and fans of the indie scene will have much to look forward to.
Fri, Mar 22, 2013 | 13:45 GMT
PS Plus April content for Europe includes Thomas Was Alone, Okami HD, The Cave, more
Joe Danger 2, Dead or Alive 5 and Metal Gear Solid HD Collection are already available for download to PS Plus members, but come April 3, lucky subs will be getting Okami HD, Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and The Cave.
Tue, Mar 12, 2013 | 04:31 GMT
Monkey Island creator farewells Double Fine
The Secret of Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has left Double Fine.
Thu, Jan 31, 2013 | 14:37 GMT
Puddle, Ikachan, Fire Emblem Awakening round out North American eShop offerings
Puddle, Ikachan, and Fire Emblem Awakening are just a few of the titles being offered by Nintendo through eShop and Virtual Console in North America this week. While Fire Emblem Awakening won't be available through the service until February 4, there are plenty of other things to help you pass the time. Hit the break for your full update.
Thu, Jan 24, 2013 | 14:25 GMT
Balloon Fight, The Cave, Shadow Wars, more arrive on North American eShop
Balloon Fight, The Cave, Funky Barn, Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, and a demo for Brain Age: Concentration Edition have landed on the North American Nintendo eShop. There's more though, so head below for your weekly update.
Tue, Jan 22, 2013 | 15:59 GMT
The Cave lands in Europe tomorrow on all formats, in NA for Xbox 360
The Cave will release on eShop tomorrow in the UK, Nintendo has confirmed. The game releases in the US today on PC, PSN, and Wii U for $14.99/€12.99. It will release tomorrow on PSN, and the eShop in Europe, and on the XBL Marketplace in the US and Europe for €12.99/1200 MS Points. Reviews for the game went live today. Get rounded up here.
Tue, Jan 22, 2013 | 17:27 GMT
The Cave reviews are go, get the scores here
The Cave, Ron Gilbert's latest platform adventure title has entered the review stage, and with it a dose of scores have begun flooding the internet like the rising tide in some faraway limestone cavern full of stalactites. Google 'stalactites' then check out the scores below.
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 | 17:48 GMT
The Cave set for multiplatform release next week
The Cave, Double Fine and Ron Gilbert's cute-looking adventure game has been given a release date on PC, PSN, Wii U and Xbox Live. The Cave will be available on January 22 for PSN and the Nintendo eShop for $14.99/€12.99, and on January 23 for 1200 MS Points, on Steam for $14.99/€12.99, and PSN in Europe. A new trailer is below along with a set of screenshots.
Tue, Jan 15, 2013 | 16:46 GMT
Wreckateer DLC, The Cave, Rockstar sale and more coming soon to XBL Marketplace
Microsoft has announced the release schedule for the Xbox Live Marketplace, and the goodies kick off today with Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock's Big Game Hunt, Sleeping Dogs content as the Deal of the Week, and an upcoming sale on Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3. Get updated below.
Thu, Jan 10, 2013 | 01:14 GMT
The Cave now available for Steam pre-purchase
The Cave, the latest adventure from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert, is now abailable for pre-purchase on Steam. The Double Fine-developed title is $20 and still doesn't have a PC release date beyond sometime this month; it's also coming to PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360. It challenges players to control three protagonists at once to progress through levels, which may sound tricky but Stace does a better job of explaining than me.
Thu, Dec 20, 2012 | 02:14 GMT
Ron Gilbert's The Cave: why you needn't fear the Reaper
Stace Harman ventures into The Cave and speaks to adventure game veteran Ron Gilbert about the cheery subject of death.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 | 03:08 GMT
The Cave Wii U "up to par" with other consoles
The Cave will use the Wii U's Game Pad to make character selection easier, but Double Fine otherwise expects it to be identical to other console versions.
Fri, Dec 14, 2012 | 08:53 GMT
The Cave: new trailer introduces playable characters
The Cave creator Ron Gilbert and developer Double Fine have released a new trailer for their madcap platform-adventure game. In it, the talking cave discusses some of the game's seven playable character, and reveals why they have entered the cave in the first place. Some are looking for answers, some for wishes, and others simply want to poison their mother with rat poison. No really, watch it below.
Wed, Dec 12, 2012 | 23:26 GMT
Monkey Island creator explains core tenets of The Cave
Double Fine's Ron Gilbert says that the upcoming release of adventure game The Cave has no inventory, will include some light platforming as well as a cast of seven which will greatly enhanced replayability.
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Wed, Dec 05, 2012 | 10:52 GMT
The Cave: Ron Gilbert stresses its pure PC nature
The Cave creator Ron Gilbert has revealed that he created the game with the PC market firmly in mind, and has explained why its purely mouse and keyboard-based control scheme harks back to the adventure genre's heydey. Did you also know that he only fires up his Xbox 360 once a month?
Sat, Dec 01, 2012 | 16:07 GMT
The Cave character trailer highlights the Hillbilly, Monk, Scientist, and the Twins
The Cave has a new character trailer available, which is the first highlighting the seven playable characters in the game. It focuses on the Hillbilly, Monk, Scientist, and the Twins. The Double Fine adventure game from Ron Gilbert is slated for a digital release in January 2013.
Fri, Nov 30, 2012 | 03:40 GMT
The Walking Dead "proof of the mass marketing of adventure games", says Ron Gilbert
TellTale has done what once seemed impossible and proved that adventure games are as relevant as other genres better favoured by major publishers, Ron Gilbert has said.
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 | 17:27 BST
Ron Gilbert on point n' click stagnation: 'I blame Doom'
Industry legend Ron Gilbert has cited Doom as the cause for slowing point n' click sales in the 90s, but reminds everyone that, "Adventure games never really died."


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Thai government says elections Feb. 2
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Thailand's government said Monday that elections will be held Feb. 2, hours after the prime minister dissolved the lower house of parliament in a bid to calm the country's deepening political crisis.
Asia stocks boosted as US unemployment falls
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Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday as signs of U.S. economic recovery offset concerns that the Federal Reserve may reduce its monetary stimulus this month.
China withholds visas for NYT, Bloomberg reporters
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Chinese authorities have been withholding residence visas for reporters working for The New York Times and Bloomberg in apparent retaliation for the agencies' investigative stories on wealth accumulated by leaders' families.
Hagel to meet with Pakistan's prime minister
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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Pakistan Monday for meetings with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the nation's new army chief, hoping to further repair a strained and sputtering relationship between Washington and Islamabad.
Commuter train crashes in Jakarta, 7 dead
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At least seven people died Monday when a commuter train collided with a truck hauling fuel in Indonesia's capital, sending a fireball of orange flames and black smoke shooting skyward.
Frustrated India investors cheer opposition gains
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posted Dec 8th - 11:58pm
Sweeping wins for India's pro-business opposition party in state elections are being welcomed by investors as a sign that national polls next year will deliver a government capable of tackling the malaise in Asia's third-largest economy.
Thailand: Political crisis timeline
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Thailand's political crisis took an unexpected turn Monday when Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said she would dissolve the lower house of Parliament and call early elections. The move appeared to be an attempt to ease tension after weeks of sometimes violent anti-government demonstrations. The country has experienced years of alternating street protests between supporters and opponents of Yingluck's older brother, ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who remains a key figure in Thai politics even though he is in self-imposed exile in Dubai.
Japan cuts 3Q economic growth estimate to 1.1 pct
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Japan slashed its estimate of economic growth for the July-September quarter Monday as investment by companies slowed more than first estimated.
Indian heartland votes give BJP boon over Congress
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India's main Hindu nationalist party trounced the nationally ruling Congress in four heartland states and knocked them out of the Indian capital in a ballot contest closely watched for clues to next year's general election.
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Frette Opens Bloomingdale's Shop In A Shop
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Luxury textiles house Frette has opened a Frette shop-in-shop at Bloomingdale's 59th Street store in New York City. The boutique offers a place to pick up the popular Edmond Frette bedding, the more relaxed line targeted at the younger, aspirational customer with a lower price point (components for a standard bed are in the $400-$450 range). The sub-brand, which launched last year, pays homage to Italian style with black and white geometrics and exotic animal prints. The Bloomingdale's shop also features bedding from Frette's hotel collection. Frette currently has shop-in-shops in Bloomingdale's Dubai as well as Harrod's in London, Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, Printemps and Bon Marche in Paris. Check out more images from the Bloomingdale's shop in the gallery below.


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Hi Everyone,
I just received this e-mail from a bar that's looking for a flair bartender( see below ) and thought i'd post it in case anyone is interested. Good luck
Hi Scott,
My name is Greg Busha and I own a bar in the Downtown of Appleton, WI called The Speakeasy. I spoke to you briefly during the Las Vegas NC&B convention this year. The area where we are located is home to about 30 some bars and is probably the most popular spot in NE Wisconsin to party. Would you know someone who'd be in the area already or willing to move here. Or, maybe someone in this general region who might know someone. This person would need to have really good flair skills and an outgoing personality, someone who could engage a crowd. I'm looking to have our bar be know as "the flair bar" of the area. We've got a couple people who can train but I really need to get someone who's already got the skills
I realize that we'd have to arrange something that'd be attractive for both sides. In other words, I don't expect to get someone to do this without making it worth their effort. We have a great staff and a great atmosphere here, I think anyone with a positive, fun attitude who likes working in bars would have a good time at The Speakeasy. We have an opportunity to do something really cool here. By the way, we have a website but it's really outdated and doesn't at all reflect what we are, just in case you're checking it out.
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At present, human communities are more vulnerable to extreme weather events than to gradual change. Nonetheless, over time communities will be affected by global warming. As is usually the case, poorer communities will be more vulnerable than wealthier ones. Agriculture will be more affected than industry by gradual climate change, because industry is more adaptable. Extreme weather events, a likely product of global warming, will often negatively affect industries. Workers will often be forced to seek employment in new jobs when their old employers lose their viability. In some regions, workers may be forced to migrate from severely affected regions to those less affected, even when this means crossing national borders.
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Extreme Weather Events and Employment (Encyclopedia of Global Warming)
Global warming is expected to produce several impacts. Some, such as increasingly warmer weather or decreased precipitation, would be gradual. Most scientists agree, however, that global warming is also likely to produce more extreme weather, particularly in the tropics. The scenarios produced by the working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate that warmer weather will likely produce more and larger hurricanes and cyclones in the tropics, as well as more intense rainstorms or droughts in some areas. The occurrence of specific extreme events is difficult to predict on a long-term basis, so it will be difficult to plan for such events in any one specific area. Nonetheless, it is possible to indicate some regions that will be likely to experience more extreme weather events, such as Category 5 hurricanes (those with wind speeds over 241 kilometers per hour).
In the United States, for example, the IPCC scenarios indicate that Florida and the Gulf Coast will experience more hurricanes and, more important, hurricanes of greater magnitude. Worldwide, several cities, such as Miami in the United States and Mumbai in India, are situated along coasts vulnerable to hurricanes and cyclones; consequently, industries in these cities are vulnerable to the flooding and wind damage produced by large storms. It may be possible to adapt to stronger storms, especially in the industrial...
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Gradual Climate Change and Employment (Encyclopedia of Global Warming)
Even when regions do not suffer from extreme weather, warming can lead to a gradual rise in sea level, flooding some coastal areas. In other cases, increased precipitation or snow melt will cause rivers to flood, affecting nearby communities. When combined with extreme events, this pattern can lead to substantial migration. Already, this is beginning to happen in Bangladesh. Farmers are losing productive land to water incursions and are crossing the border into the neighboring Indian province of Assam. These new immigrants often cause a reduction in wage levels, producing hostility between natives and the new arrivals. More extreme climate change scenarios indicate that some Pacific Islanders, such as those on Nauru, may be forced to evacuate their home islands before the end of the century when increases in sea level and more powerful storms make the low-lying islands uninhabitable. These migrants will have an impact on labor supplies wherever they settle. Inundations by seawater are already having an impact on the parishes south of New Orleans. Fishermen and fur trappers are being forced to move elsewhere in search of work as their livelihoods are being destroyed.
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Climate Change Fosters Employment Growth (Encyclopedia of Global Warming)
Global warming does appear to be creating employment opportunities in some industries and regions. As annual temperatures rise in some temperate areas, such as northern Europe and Canada, new crops will become viable as growing seasons become longer. For the most part, this will mean simply an exchange of one sort of job for another for agricultural workers. As it becomes easier to navigate in the Arctic, companies are beginning to eye various opportunities to exploit natural resources there. The Arctic seabed is believed to hold several minerals, as well as having the potential for oil field development. Exploiting both of these resources will provide opportunities for skilled workers, and sailors will be needed to navigate the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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As countries strive to adapt to global warming, new industries will develop, creating jobs, at least in the industrial countries. Solar panel and wind turbine fabrication and construction are two new industries that are beginning to take shape in several countries as people turn to renewable energy sources. In some countries, infrastructure projects, such as the construction of higher seawalls in the Netherlands, are already under way. Unfortunately, poorer countries will share less in this sort of job creation because of lack of capital. People in less industrialized nations will simply be forced off the land into the cities, where few jobs exist. Even so, there will be some potential for low-wage jobs in cleaning up storm damage in all regions.
These sorts of impacts of global warming appear to be quite straightforward, yet as the IPCC panel of scientists indicates, the reality is more complex. People may also move from one area to another in search of higher wages or better working conditions. Climate change plays a role in their decision, but so do other factors, making it difficult to assign an impact to climate change alone.
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Further Reading (Encyclopedia of Global Warming)
Agnew, M. D., and D. Viner. "Potential Impact of Climate Change on International Tourism." Tourism and Hospitality Research 3 (2001): 37-60. Examines the impact of climate change on several tourist areas worldwide.
Faris, Stephan. Forecast. New York: Henry Holt, 2009. Several chapters deal with the economic impacts of climate change, especially population migration.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Climate Change, 2007—Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Edited by Martin Parry et al. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Comprehensive analysis of the impact of climate change worldwide by a group of leading climate scientists.
Jorgenson, Dale W., et al. U.S. Market Consequences of Global Climate Change. Washington, D.C.: Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 2004. Focuses on the effects of climate change on the U.S. economy.
Stern, Nicholas. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Excellent analysis of the economic impact of climate change, sponsored by the British government. Some of Stern's assumptions are questioned by some other economists.
Unruh, J., M. Krol, and N. Kliot. Environmental Change and Its Implications for Population Migration. New...
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Information on employment is usually provided by citing the unemployment rate which, in turn, is expressed in percentage terms. The unemployment rate itself is defined as the percentage of labor force unemployed. The labor force is composed of individuals unemployed and employed. A person is considered unemployed if the person is out of work, but is actively seeking work. If a person is not working and is also not seeking work, then the person is voluntarily unemployed. A voluntarily unemployed person is not considered by the government as part of the labor force and is thus not counted as being truly unemployed. The division of the labor force into employed and unemployed individuals provides the direct and clear linkage between employment and unemployment rates, even though information is often provided in terms of the unemployment raten 8 percent rate of unemployment implies that the remaining 92 percent of the labor force is gainfully employed. The sum of unemployment rate and the associated employment rate must always, by definition, be equal to 100. Thus, the traditional use of the unemployment rate to describe the state of employment in an economy should not cause any confusion.
The concept can be illustrated with the help of recent statistics. In May 1999, a total of 139 million people were in the U.S. civilian labor force, of which 5.8 million people were unemployed. These two numbers yielded the unemployment rate of 4.2 percent for all workers. It is customary to make a distinction between civilian workers and the total labor force. The total labor force is made up of civilian workers and those in the U.S. armed forces. It is often considered that the civilian unemployment rate provides the truer picture of the underlying strength of the economy, as it captures the employment provided by the market forces. As a result, the unemployment rate quoted in the popular and financial media is almost invariably the civilian unemployment rate. The difference between the unemployment rates for the total labor force and civilian workers is extremely small.
On the surface, full employment may appear to be equivalent to a zero unemployment rate. Official statistics, however, do not treat the full employment level in this manner. Full employment is officially defined as a mere 6 percent unemployment rate. Six percent is currently considered to be the "full employment rate of unemployment." The use of the 6 percent benchmark is based on the fact that it is not realistic to expect the unemployment rate to drop to zero even under best of circumstanceshere will be some unemployed people seeking jobs at any point of time. One may appreciate this seemingly odd convention if one understands the different kinds of unemployment that may be prevalent at different times. There are mainly four kinds of unemployment: seasonal, frictional, structural, and cyclical.
Seasonal unemployment results due to a variation in employment pattern as seasons change during a year. Thus, certain industries witness higher levels of unemployment during slack seasons whereas they may even experience a labor shortage during the peak seasons. For example, during harvesting season, employment in the agricultural sector increases drastically. Similarly, the construction industry experiences higher unemployment during winter and increased employment during summer months. In cold weather regions, construction workers may be laid off for months at a time. So, why are these workers in such a high risk industry? While the average unemployment rate in the construction industry is quite high, the industry attracts workers because the average wage rate is also high. Agricultural workers are not so lucky. Wage rates for workers harvesting crops quite low. As a result, migrant workers from Latin America, who are enthusiastic about raising funds to take back home, often end up with the lowest paying agricultural jobs.
It may, however, be noted that seasonal variations in unemployment can happen only if a region experiences a change in season. Thus, employment in the construction industry in California may not vary much across the year due to seasonal factors. While a particular region of the economy may be unaffected by seasonal factors, for the nation as a whole, seasonal variations in employment pattern are easily detectable.
In May 1999 the U.S. civilian labor market comprised about 139 million individuals. The labor market is in a constant state of flux, even when the economy is in equilibrium. Millions of people are entering the workforce or leaving it at any time. Moreover, millions are seeking gainful employment at any point in time.
The very complexity of the labor force itself becomes a cause for a temporary unemployment, called frictional unemployment. For example, if a housewife notes that the economy is doing quite well and speculates that there may be a good chance of getting a decent job, she might start actively searching for a job, thereby entering the labor force for the first time. Once part of the labor force but not yet employed, she will be counted in government statistics as being involuntarily unemployed. Let us assume that she finds an acceptable job after three months of being in the labor force. For these three months, she is a part of what is known as the frictionally unemployed labor force. Similarly, if a software programmer quits his current job due to inadequate pay or unsatisfactory work conditions, for example, and starts searching for a better job, he is also part of the frictionally unemployed labor force. Similar norms apply to a worker who reenters the labor force. A new mother, for example, may leave her job to take care of her child for a few years and come back to look for a job when the child can go to preschool. When she reenters the labor force, she joins the group of frictionally unemployed workers.
One can thus summarize that the frictional unemployment occurs during the normal job search process by individual workers. Since frictional unemployment occurs in the normal process of employee turnover in the labor market, it is also called "turnover unemployment." While the frictional unemployment for any one individual is a temporary phenomenon, for the economy as whole there are always a good number of people that are frictionally unemployed. Any economy is expected to have a modest amount of frictional unemployment. For a number of reasons, the United States seems to have a higher level of frictional unemployment than some other developed countries. The system of unemployment compensation in the United States is considered one of the factors leading to higher than necessary frictional unemployment. It is argued by critics of the unemployment compensation policy that the system induces higher overall unemployment.
Structural unemployment occurs in the economy when it undergoes structural changes. The structural changes lead to a mismatch: skill requirements and/or the geographical location of existing jobs do not match the present skills of workers seeking jobs or the geographical location of unemployed workers. Since the structural unemployment involves this mismatch between skills and/or locations, it is also called "mismatch unemployment." There are a number of factors that account for the mismatch between skills, locations, or both.
Mismatches between current skills of workers and skill requirements of available jobs arise when workers fail to meet specific skill requirements of vacant jobs. If an office wants to hire a secretary who knows the filing system employed in that office, having general skills such as typing will not suffice. Sometimes, the skill gap may be due to much higher technical skills required at emerging jobs (job openings for computer programmers, for example). These vacancies cannot be filled with workers who know only word processing.
Structural changes, often triggered by technological changes, lead to job losses in some industries. For example, with a rise in wages and advancements in technology, the U.S. economy no longer has a comparative advantage in producing labor intensive products. One such example is the decline of the U.S. shoe industry. The American shoe industry could not compete with workers in developing countries because workers in those countries possess the skills needed in shoe manufacturing and their wage rates are much lower. As a result, the American shoe industry is fighting a losing battle. A similar situation has already occurred in the textile industry. American textile jobs have been lost to developing countries. This phenomenon is by no means unique to the United Stateshe Japanese textile industry suffered a similar fate.
The steel industry is also having a difficult time. The reason again is technological change, but of a slightly different sort. The U.S. steel industry is quite old and thus while it embodies the best technology available at the time these steel plants were built, they have been made obsolete by later developments in steel manufacturing technology. Thus, the late-starting less-developed countries (LDCs) possess a technological edge and are thus able to out-compete the U.S. steel manufacturers. Now, suppose a worker who has lost his or her job in the steel industry goes looking for a job. Clearly, it is most unlikely that the worker would find many steel industry jobs waitinge or she would have to find a job in another industry. This is a classic case of structural unemployment. Retraining to acquire new skills is the only remedy available for this worker.
A mismatch of locations occurs when job vacancies and unemployed workers are distributed unequally across geographical regions. During the 1980s, when the New England economy was booming, the Texas economy went bust. The bursting of the economic bubble in the Texas economy was due to a collapse in oil prices. A lot of oil industry and related jobs were lost. The New England economy, on the other hand, was booming due to an increased demand for computer and financial services. Thus there were unemployed workers in Texas and a surplus of jobs in New England. Why didn't the unemployed workers move to New England? There are at least three factors that accounted for the reluctance of Texas workers to move to New England. First, job requirements for the two kinds of jobs were probably very different. Second, a preponderance of two-worker families implied that each family would need to find two jobs, not one, to make moving feasible. Finally, most people are reluctant to move across country in search of workhey would rather stay near friends and family.
Structural unemployment tends to last much longer than frictional unemployment, as it takes much longer to acquire new skills or to move to a new location to begin a job search. Several solutions have been suggested to deal with structural unemployment. Economists have suggested that the government should provide better public education, provide subsidies to firms that train workers, and initiate government-financed training programs to solve the problem of low skills. One of the suggestions to deal with the mismatch in locations is for the government to subsidize the cost of relocation. Another suggestion to deal with the problem calls for the establishment of tax-incentive-based enterprise zones.
As mentioned in the beginning, at the 6 percent rate of unemployment, the economy is considered as good as being fully employed. The 6 percent level is called the benchmark unemployment, full employment rate of unemployment, or the natural rate of unemployment. This number is arrived at by adding the three components of unemployment discussed aboveeasonal, frictional, and structural unemployment. The 6 percent level is the current estimate of these three components. With the increasing complexity in the U.S. labor market, this benchmark unemployment rate has been steadily revised upward over timet was 4 percent during 1952-58, 4.5 percent in 1970 and 4.9 percent in 1977, and it is 6 percent at the current time.
Cyclical unemployment can be considered to be determined residually as the difference between the actual and natural rates of unemployment. Thus, if we assume that the current rate of unemployment is 7.5 percent, 1.5 percent is attributable to cyclical unemployment. Fortunately, the actual unemployment rate has remained under 4.5 percent since November 1998. The booming economy has not only eliminated the cyclical unemployment, it has led to more-than-full employment of the labor force. What causes cyclical unemployment?
Cyclical unemployment is the result of variations in the level of aggregate demand in the economy. If the aggregate demand level falls short of that necessary to maintain full employment, cyclical unemployment is the result and the unemployment rate goes above the 6 percent benchmark level. The higher the deficiency in aggregate demand, the higher the unemployment rate climbs above the 6 percent mark. As fluctuations in the aggregate demand are considered to be cyclical, the unemployment caused by demand deficiency (i.e., those not attributable to natural factors) is called cyclical unemployment. It is the cyclical unemployment that is the focus of government macroeconomic policies.
Unemployment (especially cyclical unemployment) is the focus of government policies. Thus, collection of unemployment data by the government on a continuous basis is of great importance for policy purposes and is collected every month. The government needs to know not only the prevailing unemployment rate at the national level, but also its geographical and demographic break. Of course, collecting unemployment data every month by contacting everyone in the labor force would be a very time consuming and costly affair, as there are about 139 million people in the civilian labor force. As a result, the government uses a cost-efficient, but scientifically designed, alternative known as the survey method. Each month the U.S. Census Bureau workers interview about 66,000 households regarding their employment status. In particular, they are asked if they are working for pay (full or part-time), are actively looking for jobs, are temporarily absent from work or are on layoffs. Each month one-fourth of the households in the sample are replaced by new households in order to gradually update the sample. While the data obtained from the survey are not as good as those based on contacting all workers in the labor force, they are pretty close.
The official unemployment rate data do not represent the true extent of unemployment in the economy. They suffer from several flaws that undermine the use of the unemployment rate as guide of labor market conditions. These will be briefly discussed to warn the readers of the shortcomings of the official unemployment rate statistic. First, the unemployment rate does not capture the effects of discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force. For example, say a female worker keeps looking for a job for about a year and does not find one. She is so discouraged about the prospect of landing a job that she quits searching. The moment she quits actively searching for a job, she is no longer considered a part of the labor force and is thus not counted among unemployed in official statistics. As a result, if there is a poor job market from which a lot of workers drop out, the official unemployment rate may actually go down because those people aren't looking anymore. Suppose, for the purpose of illustration, that there are 100 persons in the labor force, 10 of whom are unemployed, yielding an unemployment rate of 10 percent. Assume now that 3 discouraged workers drop out of the labor forcehe labor force declines to 97 and the number of unemployed reduces to 7. The official unemployment would drop from 10 percent to about 7 percent. One thus observes a rather backwards response of the unemployment rate statistic to a discouraging labor market condition. An opposite phenomenon occurs when the economy is doing very well and the labor market shows a lot of promise to aspiring workers. People who are not yet in the labor market feel encouraged to enter the job market. Even if they find jobs ultimately, they raise the number of unemployed temporarily. This can result in higher official unemployment rate even when the economy is doing better than before.
Another drawback of the unemployment statistic is that it does not distinguish between part-time and full-time employment. While working the 2:00 A.M. to 4:00 A.M. shift at a convenience store is not a dream job, the government statistics would count that person as being employed. This naturally inflates the extent of true employment in the economy.
Even if somebody is employed full-time, that person might be working a minimum-wage job with no fringe benefits or job security. Such a job may be unable to provide the worker with enough income to support a family. Workers employed in this manner are often called the working poor.
The above-mentioned drawbacks of the official unemployment statistics provide adequate warning not to take the unemployment rate literally without asking additional questions. While the unemployment rate data are not without flaws, the government relies on them to a large degree to gauge the labor market.
Unemployment of labor essentially amounts to a waste of productive labor resources. It also leads to a number of undesirable outcomes, such as lower incomes, lower standards of living, greater social tension, and greater welfare expenditures. Thus, we need to consider not only the economic costs (billions of dollars in lost output) but also the human costs associated with increased unemployment. With respect to economic costs, researchers have estimated that every percentage point increase in the unemployment rate above the natural rate leads to a loss in output equivalent to 2.5 percent of the year's gross domestic product (the main gauge of the nation's economic activity). This implies that if the unemployment rate was 7 percent in 1993, it was equivalent to an output loss of about $625 billion in 1993 prices.
Researchers have also found that the human costs of unemployment are quite tragic. Estimates by two economists (Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison in The Deindustrialization of America) suggest that for every I percent increase in the unemployment rate, 920 more people commit suicide, 650 more commit homicide, 500 more die from heart and kidney disease, 4,000 more are admitted to state mental hospitals, and an additional 3,300 individuals are sent to state prisons.
Both economic and human costs, in addition to probably the political motivations, are the reasons behind the use of active government policies to reduce the unemployment rate to the full employment level. The government uses two sets of macroeconomic policies to reduce the unemployment rateonetary and fiscal policies. These policies attempt to reduce unemployment by increasing aggregate demand for goods and services in the economy. Greater demand for goods and services leads to higher production, requires a larger number of workers to be employed in the production process. This, generally, reduces the unemployment rate.
While reducing the unemployment rate sounds desirable, the process is not without complications. A lowering of the unemployment rate leads to higher inflation, especially when the economy is at or near the full employment level. So, the macroeconomic policies have to strike a balance between acceptable unemployment and inflation rates. Normally, fiscal policy, conducted by the U.S. Congress and the White House in the United States, tends to have proemployment bias. Monetary policy, conducted by an independent central bank (called the Federal Reserve System in the United States), on the other hand, tends to have anti-inflation bias. In general, the purpose of both monetary and fiscal policies is to strive to achieve high employment consistent with low and stable inflation. Fortunately, the late 1990s were great years for the policy makershe economy experienced much lower than the 6 percent unemployment rate, and virtually no inflation. This unlikely combination (dubbed as the "Goldilocks economy") has sent economists searching for the causes of the noninflationary growth.
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