Questão 38 - FUVEST (USP) 2010

    Last month America’s unemployment rate climbed to

8,1%, the highest in a quarter of a century. For those

newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are

the worst since records began 50 years ago. In China 20m

[5] migrant workers (maybe 3% of the labour force) have

been laid off. Cambodia’s textile industry, its main source

of exports, has cut one worker in ten. In Spain the

building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds

in a year, to 14.8% in January. And in Japan, where

[10] official unemployment used to be all but unknown, tens of

thousands of people on temporary contracts are losing not

just their jobs but also the housing provided by their

employers.

    The next phase of the world’s economic downturn is

[15] taking shape: a global jobs crisis. Its contours are only just

becoming clear, but the severity, breadth and likely length

of the recession, together with changes in the structure of

labour markets in both rich and emerging economies,

suggest the world is about to undergo its biggest increase

[20] in unemployment for decades.

The Economist, March 14th 2009.

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