Unemployment.

ISSUE

Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work. The prevalence of unemplo

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European Central Bank

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MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 23: A notice board is full of language training courses on offer on the language school where daily Dutch language classes are preparing students for a move from Spain to a health care job in the Netherlands, on April 23, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The students, all university schooled health care workers in the age group of 22 to 29 years old, are recruited locally by a Dutch employment agency. They learn to speak Dutch over a period of six months after which they are moved to the Netherlands with a one-and-a-half year health care job contract. Since the start of the economic crisis about 4 million jobs have disappeared in Europe putting the average unemployment level up to 12 percent. Unemployment in Spain currently stands at 26 percent, and youth unemployment at 55 percent, meaning many young Spaniards are leaving their country behind for the more prosperous northern Europe. In 2012 more than 4,000 immigrants to the Netherlands where from Spain, an increase of 25 percent from 2011, and two times as much as in 2007 before the start of the economic crisis. Not only the Dutch but also the German language classes in Spain are full. In Germany immigration figures rose from 400,000 in 2010 to 490,000 in 2012 with the number of Spanish newcomers doubling in the first six months of 2012 to 11,300.

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MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 20: Tania Sanchez (3rd L), 25 years-old from Sevilla, and German Ramos, 24 years-old from Sevilla, walk in between orange dressed Dutch, who live in Madrid, during a free market to celebrate Queens Day on their free day after a week of Dutch language class preparing them for their move from Spain to a health care job in the Netherlands, on April 20, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The students, all university schooled health care workers in the age group of 22 to 29 years old, are recruited locally by a Dutch employment agency. They learn to speak Dutch over a period of six months after which they are moved to the Netherlands with a one-and-a-half year health care job contract. Since the start of the economic crisis about 4 million jobs have disappeared in Europe putting the average unemployment level up to 12 percent. Unemployment in Spain currently stands at 26 percent, and youth unemployment at 55 percent, meaning many young Spaniards are leaving their country behind for the more prosperous northern Europe. In 2012 more than 4,000 immigrants to the Netherlands where from Spain, an increase of 25 percent from 2011, and two times as much as in 2007 before the start of the economic crisis. Not only the Dutch but also the German language classes in Spain are full. In Germany immigration figures rose from 400,000 in 2010 to 490,000 in 2012 with the number of Spanish newcomers doubling in the first six months of 2012 to 11,300.

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$People line up at an employment office in Badalona, near Barcelona, April 25, 2013. More than six million Spaniards were out of work in the first quarter of this year, raising the jobless rate in the euro zone\'s fourth biggest economy to 27.2 percent, the highest since records began in the 1970s. The stickers on the wall read, \$

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Unemployed Yemeni wait for work offers on a sidewalk in Sanaa, on April 6, 2013. Unemployment rates among young people in Yemen can reach as high as 40 percent and a new World Bank project is designed to help by providing work opportunities for unemployed youth and women and improving access to basic social services in poor communities.

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MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 23: A notice board is full of language training courses on offer on the language school where daily Dutch language classes are preparing students for a move from Spain to a health care job in the Netherlands, on April 23, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The students, all university schooled health care workers in the age group of 22 to 29 years old, are recruited locally by a Dutch employment agency. They learn to speak Dutch over a period of six months after which they are moved to the Netherlands with a one-and-a-half year health care job contract. Since the start of the economic crisis about 4 million jobs have disappeared in Europe putting the average unemployment level up to 12 percent. Unemployment in Spain currently stands at 26 percent, and youth unemployment at 55 percent, meaning many young Spaniards are leaving their country behind for the more prosperous northern Europe. In 2012 more than 4,000 immigrants to the Netherlands where from Spain, an increase of 25 percent from 2011, and two times as much as in 2007 before the start of the economic crisis. Not only the Dutch but also the German language classes in Spain are full. In Germany immigration figures rose from 400,000 in 2010 to 490,000 in 2012 with the number of Spanish newcomers doubling in the first six months of 2012 to 11,300.

MADRID, SPAIN - APRIL 20: Tania Sanchez (3rd L), 25 years-old from Sevilla, and German Ramos, 24 years-old from Sevilla, walk in between orange dressed Dutch, who live in Madrid, during a free market to celebrate Queens Day on their free day after a week of Dutch language class preparing them for their move from Spain to a health care job in the Netherlands, on April 20, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The students, all university schooled health care workers in the age group of 22 to 29 years old, are recruited locally by a Dutch employment agency. They learn to speak Dutch over a period of six months after which they are moved to the Netherlands with a one-and-a-half year health care job contract. Since the start of the economic crisis about 4 million jobs have disappeared in Europe putting the average unemployment level up to 12 percent. Unemployment in Spain currently stands at 26 percent, and youth unemployment at 55 percent, meaning many young Spaniards are leaving their country behind for the more prosperous northern Europe. In 2012 more than 4,000 immigrants to the Netherlands where from Spain, an increase of 25 percent from 2011, and two times as much as in 2007 before the start of the economic crisis. Not only the Dutch but also the German language classes in Spain are full. In Germany immigration figures rose from 400,000 in 2010 to 490,000 in 2012 with the number of Spanish newcomers doubling in the first six months of 2012 to 11,300.

Workers hold a banner that reads: "For the Employment, Against Unemployment and Precarity" during May Day celebrations, in Marseille, France, Wednesday May 1, 2013.

People line up at an employment office in Badalona, near Barcelona, April 25, 2013. More than six million Spaniards were out of work in the first quarter of this year, raising the jobless rate in the euro zone's fourth biggest economy to 27.2 percent, the highest since records began in the 1970s. The stickers on the wall read, "Unemployment".

A city cleaner works near a wall with graffiti that reads "International Monetary Fund + Unemployment + Poverty + Precariousness + Privatization" in Bobadela April 10, 2013. Portuguese will suffer from cuts to schools and hospitals to protect civil service benefits after the constitutional court rejected austerity measures that would have reduced holiday bonuses and other public sector perks. The government has had to scramble to find new areas to cut after the court concluded that it was unfair to single out civil servants for reductions in benefits under measures imposed to meet the terms of an international bailout programme.

Unemployed Yemeni wait for work offers on a sidewalk in Sanaa, on April 6, 2013. Unemployment rates among young people in Yemen can reach as high as 40 percent and a new World Bank project is designed to help by providing work opportunities for unemployed youth and women and improving access to basic social services in poor communities.

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