Although it had gradually declined to 5.6% by May 1979, unemployment began rising again thereafter.

As signs of recession have grown, unemployment has also begun rising again, reaching 9.5 percent last month.

These golden years peaked by the end of the 1980's, when unemployment began to rise.

After the stock market crash of 1989, unemployment began to rise reaching an all-time high of 11.20% in September 1991.

"Once unemployment begins to rise from 4 percent," he said, "wage growth below the median clearly slows."

In 2000, unemployment began to rise and the economy of Ramallah declined.

But recently the economy has revived - 2.7 percent growth is expected this year - and unemployment has begun to decline.

After the 1990-91 recession ended, unemployment did not begin to fall for another 15 months, and the work force continued to shrink until 1993.

Think what would happen to us if unemployment began to fall in Europe!

With inflation down to 1.6% by 1993, unemployment then began to fall rapidly, standing at 1,800,000 by early 1997.