Does mass unemployment depress the wages?
It was a time of mass unemployment.
Governments across Asia are worried about mass unemployment and the social instability that could bring.
The UK, uniquely, has not had to face the problem of mass unemployment.
A jittery Kremlin, nervous of mass unemployment and of social unrest, is likely to agree.
In a period of mass unemployment a lot of people must learn to tighten their belt
This isn't really surprising: you expect inflation to fall in the face of mass unemployment and excess capacity.
Generous severance arrangements discourage firms from hiring workers and have created a two-tier Labour market and mass unemployment.
Still, most economists think the current downturn will be shallow and not result in problems such as mass unemployment.
Instead, like the rest of Washington, it's inventing reasons to dither in the face of mass unemployment.
During the Depression, mass unemployment meant it was not the time to experiment with cutting edge designs so skirts remained reassuringly long and subtly feminine.
State television has broadcast a series of alarmist documentaries portraying Europe as a region governed by fascists and blighted by mass unemployment.
David Dollar, the bank's country director for China, insisted that figure had no scientific basis, attempting to dispel the spectre of mass unemployment.
Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the Middle East and north Africa these last weeks.
At least some members of the FOMC have bought into the hangover theory — the modern version of liquidationism in which mass unemployment is somehow necessary in the aftermath of a burst bubble
