Unemployment imposes significant costs on individuals, society, and countries through both direct and indirect means. While a natural level of unemployment cannot be avoided, elevated levels of unemployment spread costs widely without offsetting benefits. These costs are borne by all as a result of unemployment levels being too high.
Unemployment imposes significant costs on individuals, society, and countries through both direct and indirect means. While a natural level of unemployment cannot be avoided, elevated levels of unemployment spread costs widely without offsetting benefits. These costs are borne by all as a result of unemployment levels being too high.
Unemployment imposes significant costs on individuals, society, and countries through both direct and indirect means. While a natural level of unemployment cannot be avoided, elevated levels of unemployment spread costs widely without offsetting benefits. These costs are borne by all as a result of unemployment levels being too high.
Unemployment imposes significant costs on individuals, society, and countries through both direct and indirect means. While a natural level of unemployment cannot be avoided, elevated levels of unemployment spread costs widely without offsetting benefits. These costs are borne by all as a result of unemployment levels being too high.
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The cost of unemployment to the economy
Unemployment is universally recognized as undesirable. While economists and
academics make convincing arguments that there is a certain natural level of unemployment that cannot be erased, elevated unemployment imposes significant costs on the individual, the society and the country. Worse yet, most of the costs are of the dead loss variety where there are no offsetting gains to the costs that everyone must bear.