There are statistics that indicate that
unemployed people spend less than one hour a day on their searches.
Not exact matches
Through our services for
people who are
unemployed, one of the critical issues we deal with is the raft of other problems that
people accumulate as they
spend longer being
unemployed.
If more
people were able to find jobs, then less money would need to be
spent on support for
unemployed people, because there would be fewer of them.
(It seems likely that the main rise in public
spending and reduction of tax revenue over the 2008 - present period has been due to economic contraction rather than policy change -
unemployed people claim benefits, don't pay tax on wages and pay much less VAT on purchases.
But in a bad economy, when you're indefinitely
unemployed,
spending months this way will be disastrous because you're not doing anything that
people are willing to pay you to do.
What's more important is that these
people spend, on average, only about 30 minutes per day job - hunting (you'll need to click the «
unemployed» button to see this; it's a vanishingly small slice for
people with jobs).
Yeah it can grow if there is demand and it can hire otherwise
unemployed people thus increasing total
spending / income.
Many
people who find themselves
unemployed, under - employed or at a dead end job, take the approach, «why should I
spend money on having someone else write my resume, I can do it myself and save the money».