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TYPES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT

There are various types of unemployment which have been described in various works which have been mentioned in different textbooks and by different economic scholars based on physical and human attitude to work. Employment types are based on different regions of the world:

The type of employment based on particular region is explained briefly below:

The human resources divisions of the recommended types of employment are thus

Regular Full Employees:

This type of employees involves those who are scheduled to work 8 hours per day from Monday to Fridays on a regular basis and expected to work for at least one year.

Regular Three-Quarter time Employees:

These are employees who are scheduled to work 30 hours per week but less than 40 hours per week, on a regular basis and they are expected to work for at least a year.

Regular Part Time Employees:

This type of employment requires that employees be employed for at least one year but work for 20 hours per week but less than 30 hours per week on a regular basis.

Temporary Full Time Employees:

This type of employment requires that the employees work for at least three months but less than a year for 8 hours per day, Monday to Friday.

Casual Employees:

The employees are not scheduled to work some particular fixed hour per day or week on a continuing and they are not fixed to work for a specific period say three consecutive months.

Following in the same vain are the types of unemployment prevalent in many economies today. They are:

Demand Deficit Unemployment

This is also referred to as the cyclical unemployment which is more related to recession periods. During recessions as the demand of many individuals in the economy falls, signals a sent to the employers of labour who in turn cut back production to avoid excess accumulation of manufactured but unsold stocks which will then lead to the cut down of the number of individuals employed to produce one unit of a commodity.

According to Richard Pettinger, cyclical unemployment occurs when the economy is producing below capacity. Jodi Beggs described, cyclical unemployment as been associated with business cycles occurring in the economy.

Frictional Unemployment:

This type of unemployment is the simplest of all the types of unemployment. This unemployment is associated with when people are between jobs. When they quit one job and are in search of another. The period between their quitting that job and getting another one is referred to as the frictional or search unemployment.

Jodi Beggs stated that Frictional unemployment occurs because it takes workers some time to move from one job to another.

Structural Unemployment:

This type of unemployment has to do with when there are structural changes in the economy. Ther