Statistical Yearbook of Palestine 2011
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direction. In the balance of payments, a distinction is made between current and
capital transfers
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Underemployment:
Underemployment exists when a person’s employment is inadequate in relation to
alternative employment, account being taken of his\her occupational skills. The
underemployed persons are classified into two groups:1. Visible Underemployment:
which refers to insufficient volume of employment :Persons worked less than 35
hours during the reference week or worked less than the normal hours of work in
their occupation were considered as visibly underemployed.2. Invisible
Underemployment: refers to a misapplication of labour resources or fundamental
imbalance as between labour and other factors of production, such as insufficient
income.
Unemployed (According to the ILO Standards):
Unemployed persons are those individuals aged 15 years and over who did not work at all
during the reference period, who were not absent from a job, were available for work and
actively seeking a job during the reference period by one of the following methods news
paper, registered at employment office, ask friends or relatives or any other method.
Unemployed (According to the Relaxed Definition):
The Number Of Unemployed Persons was calculated under the definition by adding
to unemployed Persons according to the ILO Standards, those Persons outside labor
force because they were frustrated.
Unpaid Family Member:
A person who works without pay in an economic enterprise operated by a related person
living in the same household.
UNRWA School:
Any school run or supervised by UNRWA.
Utilization of the Building:
It refers to the way the building is currently used, regardless of the purpose of its
construction. The utilization could be (Habitation Only, Habitation and Work, Work
Only, Closed or Vacant.
V
Value Added:
Value added is a central concept of production and refers to the generated value of
any unit that carries out any productive activity. Gross value added is defined as the
value of gross production less the value of intermediate consumption.