Should such short-term unemployment be counted in the official figures?

Nonetheless, short-term unemployment among the refugees is likely to remain high.

Short-term unemployment may have no serious effect on an individual; long-term unemployment can be devastating.

Discrepancies remain on the spillover effects of public education institutions- attracting industry and reducing short-term unemployment.

During the mid-Seventies recession, eligibility for short-term unemployment benefits was extended from 6 to 12 months, and to 24 months in some cases.

There will also be tensions - more short-term unemployment, labor and political activism - and China's leaders will face hard political choices.

He said he had emphasized the potential role of central banks in reducing short-term unemployment because he was speaking there at a conference on unemployment.

Some economists have argued that short-term unemployment should be excluded from the official figures in order that the statistics be made more useful to policy-makers.

It is usually argued that fixed capital increasing projects, even if they cause local and short-term unemployment, actually increase total employment through permitting significant increases in output.

Aside from short-term unemployment benefits, few public resources are available to dislocated professionals who turn to family for support and struggle to redefine relationships and revise expectations.

High unemployment confronts central bankers with a choice between reducing short-term unemployment with low interest rates or controlling inflation with high interest rates.

Short-term unemployment has declined, Professor Krueger said, in part because of the rise of temporary help agencies, which have been booming in New York and across the country.

The Chinese are reluctant to open markets as fast as the United States and other Western countries demand, fearing the short-term unemployment and dislocations that outside competition could bring.

In separate interviews, Mr. Reich and Mr. Ross said that Government programs now on the books had been intended to correct for short-term unemployment resulting from a general economic downturn and that times were different now.