1. UNEMPLOYMENT

2. Definiton  The official unemployment rate is defined as the number of unemployed persons divided by the total labor force (the sum of unemployed and employed persons).

3. Facts  From a survey taken in January of 2011, “about 7% of the world’s workforce is unemployed while 40% have stable jobs.”  In 2010, the total number of people unemployed around the world was 205 million.  It is important to know that many developing countries have fairly low unemployment rates because many of them are self- employed.  The U.S. has an unemployment rate of around 10%  China and about a dozen other countries are less than 5%

4. Unemployment rates around the world  This is a great website to view the unemployment rates of all of the different countries around the world for the years 2007-2010  http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global- database/economic-data/10297-worlds- unemployment-rates-2006- 2010.html#axzz1JFVnwXi1 http://www.gfmag.com/tools/global- database/economic-data/10297-worlds- unemployment-rates-2006- 2010.html#axzz1JFVnwXi1

5. 2009 unemployment rates

6. What’s ahead…  Even though it seems the economy for many countries seem to be getting better, it is still predicted and expected that unemployment rates will remain at record highs throughout the year 2011

8. OBJECTIVE: work together with students from University of Kansas in this project which is to investigate all about unemployment. This will allow us to improve our investigative techniques and the use of technology using the cooperative learning method. Objective: To show to the class what was the project about and illustrate them about such topic.

9. It is the state of an individual looking for a paying job but not having one.

10. The national statistics could not be more flattering today, Labor Day in Panama - unemployment is down to 6.3% with all forecasts predicting that number will continue to fall.

11. 199514.0190.08 % 199614.3172.13 % 199713.37-6.61 % 199813.5761.54 % 199911.753-13.43 % 200013.52315.06 % 200114.7068.75 % 200214.107-4.07 % 200313.652-3.23 % 200412.35-9.54 % 200510.327-16.38 % 20069.111-11.77 % 20076.783-25.55 % 20085.849-13.77 % 20096.93218.52 % 20105.529-20.24 % Year Unemployment rate Percent Change

13.  Rapid changes in technology  Recessions  Inflation  Disability  Undulating business cycles  Changes in tastes as well as alterations in the climatic conditions. This may in turn lead to decline in demand for certain services as well as products.  Attitude towards employers  Willingness to work  Perception of employees  Employee values  Discriminating factors in the place of work (may include discrimination on the basis of age, class, ethnicity, color and race).

14. Youth vs. adult unemployment

15. Female Versus Male Unemployment  Women in couples have higher employment rates than single women, and for both groups women without children are more likely to be in employment.  Men unemployment rates are less than women because they have more workspace to be hired.

16. Unemployment benefits  Unemployment benefits are payments made by the state or other authorized bodies to unemployed people.stateunemployed  Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, that they seek work and do not currently have a job.

17. Advantages VS Disadvantage Advantages -Employment insurance helps prevent a recession by supplying people with money so they can spend it and help the economy. Disadvantage: -It gives people an incentive to stay unemployed. -It also puts a barrier to movement of labour. -Hence, either way it leads to a high unemployment rate.

18. Having worked on this project has enabled us to improve our investigation skills so much as learn about the problems that comes with unemployment in the world and in our country. We have also gained experience in working together as a group using a positive technology for learning, which makes this method employed by teachers very successful.