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If someone dies, thereby leaving a job without applying for unemployment benefit, and someone on benefits replaces them, thereby leaving the unemployment stats,
by Krisjohn 5y ago
If someone dies, thereby leaving a job without applying for unemployment benefit, and someone on benefits replaces them, thereby leaving the unemployment stats, does that count as a job being "created"?
- NoPicklez 5y agoNo, because the job role was always there.
- MattGaiser 5y agoIt would depend on the measure. Some job numbers are based on payrolls, so no. If using unemployment, yes.
- jameshart 5y agoYou've stumbled on the ingenious scheme to end unemployment put forward by Peter Cook's Prime Minister in Whoops Apocalypse: https://youtu.be/NBHHFnUqo5o?t=119 https://youtu.be/NBHHFnUqo5o?t=119 (You can wind back to the start to see the underlying cause of unemployment as well)