A leading economist suggests that this country will experience an important decrease in unemployment over the next few years.

Curiously, the dramatic decrease in unemployment, especially since the early 1990's, when the most marked declines occurred, is not among them.

His record in office also include a decrease in unemployment and a large-scale reform of the welfare state's financing system.

The decrease in unemployment among teen-agers was also dramatic, dropping to 19.3 percent from 30.2 percent last year.

The original version of Okun's law states that a 3% increase in output would lead to a 1% decrease in unemployment.

While the numbers are still higher for Blacks and Hispanics, both groups experience similar decreases in unemployment in relation to education level.

In this case it can be shown that raising a minimum wage can in some circumstances, lead to a decrease in unemployment.

At the end of his administration, Carter had seen a substantive decrease in unemployment and a partial reduction of the deficit, but the recession ultimately continued.

The mayor hailed the city's falling crime rate, the decrease in unemployment, the cleaner streets, the reductions in traffic accidents and the help given to children and the elderly.

The decrease in unemployment from 4.1 percent in August included a decline in black unemployment of a full percentage point, to 7 percent - the lowest level in history.

The IMF stated in September 2010 that the financial crisis would not end without a major decrease in unemployment as hundreds of millions of people were unemployed worldwide.

"The major message is that the decrease in unemployment camouflages weakness underneath," said Samuel D. Kahan, chief economist at Fuji Securities in Chicago.

Mr. Ehrenhalt said that despite the decrease in unemployment, there were few signs that poor single mothers and other groups who have traditionally remained outside the the labor market are now participating.

The Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel, the United States and the West now share the common goals of economic stability and a rapid decrease in unemployment for the Palestinians.

Year-round schools also allow for students to graduate at different times, allowing for a decrease in unemployment when compared to all students graduating together and trying to get the few jobs that are open during that time.

The expectations created by the merger - that Clement could bring about an economic upturn and a decrease in unemployment thanks to the expanded powers available to him - are yet to be fulfilled (as of July 2005).

Mark Marcon, a securities analyst who follows the industry for the First Union Securities in Richmond, Va., said the increasing number of retiring baby boomers would ultimately lead to a sharp decrease in unemployment.

Yes, but with demonstrable payoff - in jobs, rising purchasing power, decreases in unemployment costs and perhaps in crime, new enterprises, improved technology, the adequacy of the infrastructure and the resulting economic gains, enhanced tax revenues - not to mention earthquake resistance.

This.vertical Phillips curve (labelled LPC in Fig. 6.4) can be regarded as a warning to policy-makers that continued attempts to reduce unemployment below its natural level can only lead to higher and higher inflation rates and no long-run decrease in unemployment.

Frictional unemployment is always present in an economy, so the level of involuntary unemployment is properly the unemployment rate minus the rate of frictional unemployment, which means that increases or decreases in unemployment are normally under-represented in the simple statistics.