Introduction to Work & Employment 3ºESO Spanish curriculum

1. Population & Work
Which is the type of work found in
developed economies?

2. vocabulary
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Growth
Underground economy
Skills
Know-how
Source of
Productivity
Training
Workers council
Unemployed
Self-employed
Labour market
Employer
Employee
Trade/Labour union
Collective bargaining
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Fuente de
Mercado laboral
Empleador/empresa
Empleado
Negociación colectiva
Consejo de trabajadores
autónomo
Sindicato
Formación
Desempleado
Crecimiento
Economía sumergida
Productividad
Destrezas y conocimiento
Habilidades/capacidad
Competitivo

3. Unemployment rates
• Year 2010
Notes
*Data from January 2012, latest available.
Source: Eurostat, March 2012
Credit: Nelson Hsu/NPR

4. Mediterranean labour market
Unemployment rate by category, Q1 2012
Strongly affected by the
sovereign debt crisis, the
Mediterranean countries display
unemployment rates among the
highest in Europe, in particular
for the youth. In Spain and in
Greece, one out of two people
under 25, in the workforce, is
unemployed.

5. Types of paid employment
• Work for an employer
• Cooperatives
• Self-employment

6. Unemployment
problem
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Cyclical
Seasonal
Structural
Technological

7. Definitions Unemployment
Structural unemployment occurs due to
the structural changes within an
economy. This type of unemployment
occurs when there is a mismatch of
skilled workers and occupational
vacancies in the labor market. Some of
the causes of the structural
unemployment are geographical
immobility (difficulty in moving to a new
work location), occupational immobility
(difficulty in learning a new skill) and
technological change (introduction of
new techniques and technologies that
need less labor force). Structural
unemployment depends upon the
growth rate of an economy and also on
the structure of an industry.
Cyclical Unemployment: Cyclic
unemployment occurs when there is an
economic recession. When there is a
downturn in an economy, the aggregate
demand for goods and services
decreases and demand for labor
decreases. At the time of recession,
unskilled and surplus laborers become
unemployed.
Seasonal Unemployment: A type of
unemployment that occurs due to the
seasonal nature of the job is known as
seasonal unemployment. The industries
that are affected by seasonal
unemployment are hospitality and
tourism industries and also the fruit
picking and catering industries.

8. Massive job loss cause:
• Decrease in
consumption
• Decrease in tax
collection
• Increase in
underground economy
• People´s behaviour
changes (young people
cannot become
independent,
emigration, decrase in
birth rate)