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An International Comparison of Employment in Recovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Dawn Holland ,
Simon Kirby  and
Rachel Whitworth
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While the global economic recovery remains fragile, output in most of the major advanced economies has been rising since mid-2009. Employment, however, tends to lag production, and unemployment continued to rise well into 2010 in many countries. The ILO estimates that the level of unemployment remains elevated by 30 million worldwide relative to 2007 (ILO-IMF, 2010). After taking into account global population developments, this points to a rise in the global unemployment rate of about ¾ percentage point. As the advanced economies have been faced with the brunt of the global downturn, unemployment rates have risen far more significantly within the OECD area. The unemployment rate in this region remains 2.9 percentage points higher than at the beginning of 2008.

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The World Economy
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 214 , October 2010 , pp. F35 - F40
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Copyright © 2010 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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