The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe • Hacker News Board

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Post by taysic » Thu, May 03, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

aclimatt wrote: post #29

tda wrote: post #8

I wonder how many plausible alternative captions we can come up with for this map? A few takes: * Corruption level (blue is less) * Income per capita (blue is more) * Education level (blue is better) * Price of a beer (blue is more) * etc

Just overlay a map of median temperatures and you'll have some interesting insight.

What's the insight? Historically those areas in the southern Mediterranean have been harder to defend / had more diversity / immigration / general variables. Is this what you're referring to?

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Post by lainga » Thu, May 03, 2018, 8:49 PM UTC

tluyben2 wrote: post #106

jahvo wrote: post #32

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Same in Spain. People are obviously working. Otherwise there would be riots in the streets already, haha.

Yep, I have many friends who are officially unemployed; all are working. Quite hard as well. The system in Spain does not encourage paying taxes, starting companies or hiring people legally. It is quite bad but I do not see it fixed soon.

What does it encourage?

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Post by vincvinc » Thu, May 03, 2018, 10:48 PM UTC

Luc wrote: post #2

Meh blog post. Here's the interactive chart at Eurostat: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/RCI/#?vis=nuts2.labourmar...

This link (Same site, different settings) might be more directly understandable:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/RCI/#?vis=nuts2.labourmar...

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Post by fiatjaf » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:05 PM UTC

toomanybeersies wrote: post #43

draugadrotten wrote: post #20

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The definition of "unemployment" is important here. it An unemployed person is defined by Eurostat, according to the guidelines of the International Labour Organization, as: > someone aged 15 to 74 (in Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway: 16 to 74 years); > without work during the reference week; > available to start work within the next two weeks (or has already found a job to start within the next thr…

That's the standard definition for unemployment. An unemployed person is generally considered to be someone who would want to be employed, but is not. It is meant to be a measurement of the number of people who want jobs, but are unable to get them. There are other measurements for labour force participation, which are usually fairly easy to find, and are a proportion of people who are legally able to work, against t…

> someone who would want to be employed, but is not

Would want to be employed on what kind of job? At what pay?

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Post by talideon » Tue, May 08, 2018, 11:35 AM UTC

plug wrote: post #76

tda wrote: post #39

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From that article Ireland is the most highly educated country in Europe, I never would have guessed that.

Thinking about it I'm not that surprised - the population is very small, and most people can/do avail of free third-level education.

That's not the reason for it. Rather, there's a very high premium put on having third-level education in Ireland as it was historically one of the ways to get out of poverty, even if that meant emigrating elsewhere. We could do with more people actually doing vocational courses on the German model, but owing to shifts in our economy, that's not as popular as it once was.

Also, education in Ireland isn't quite free. Sure, it's inexpensive compared to, say, the US, but the important thing is that access to third-level institutions is radically egalitarian, practically to a fault, owing to how entrance into third-level education works, based on a points score from your top six subjects in your final second-level exams.