From: uberredfraggle	Date: July 9th, 2008 10:55 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I'll be staying in Australia then.

	From: toxicpixie	Date: July 10th, 2008 09:31 am (UTC)		(Link)

The Anglo Diaspora is looking pretty damn peachy.

Chin-chin!

Nathan, the Toxic Pixie

	From: paulobrien	Date: July 10th, 2008 10:05 am (UTC)		(Link)

How are they defining "long-term unemployment"? The African and South American figures seem suspiciously low. I wonder if this is the sort of figure that's distorted by how closely a given country can be bothered keeping track of it.

	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 10th, 2008 10:14 am (UTC)		(Link)

From: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=144

Long-term unemployment is when someone is out of work and seeking work for over one year. In 2002 almost 11 million long-term unemployed people were living in territories that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Only OECD territories have an area on this map, due to data availability.

The highest rates of long-term unemployment are found in European territories. In Slovakia 5.5% of the total population have been out of work for longer than one year. That is 9.6% of the workforce.

The lowest long-term unemployment rate, in the territories for which data was available, was recorded in Mexico where state support was weakest.

	From: cdlundquist	Date: July 11th, 2008 05:22 am (UTC)		(Link)

That Mexican number has the whiff of old fish about it. One thought is that it does not measure chronic UNDER employment -- hard scrabble jobs and petty grifts like selling chewing gum on the street. Another thought is that Mexico drains off its unemployment to the USA by illegal immigration. Neither nation counts the illegals in their employment numbers -- the US because it does not really track them, Mexico because they are off the rolls completely.