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major supermarkets rely on the remployment of special individuals to be trolley collectors
by fashullet December 9, 2007
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Reployment

1. The act of re-employing someone (who was previously laid off) as a temp worker, usually at a lower wage scale.

2. What happens to many people who have lost their permanent jobs following the crash of 2008.

3. Another sign of the harsh economic times in which we live.
Acme Industries is having a Reployment Fair at the hotel downtown. They'll re-hire you as a temp at about half of what you were earning last year.
by Peter Kobs December 7, 2009
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employment fellatio

The ability for a really poor employee to keep theirjob by performing oral sex on their boss at regular intervals.
Melissa is always late, her works sucks, she's dumber than shit and the other workers find her annoying as hell. But, she has been able to keep her job by performing a lot of employment fellatio.
by 23rd Chromosome November 23, 2015
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Employment Officer

A person who is appointed by the Job Centre, to fail you in nearly every aspect of life.
'Hello i'm Sam; i'm your Employment Officer'
'My your stuby fingers look like sausages'
by Venom_of_Oswestry May 12, 2009
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Employment HIV

or E-HIV. To slowly wilt away at an undesirable place of employment until expiration.
I hate my job, it's so boring I've contracted Employment HIV.
by TheSparky04 November 2, 2011
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

title of book by John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) outlining the general concept of Keynesian economics. The book was published in 1936.

*Context*
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Prior to the Great Depression, opinions about how to properly manage the economy were dominated by Neoclassical economics, which advocated little government intervention. In particular, unemployment was regarded as the consequence of workers failing to accept wages sufficiently low to permit full employment.

During the Great Depression, unemployment soared to 25% in the USA and Germany. Economics had no advice to give to leaders anxious to do something, and none of the neoclassical predictions were coming true. The government of the UK commissioned J.M. Keynes to lead a commission of top British economists in a general review of economic theory; their finding were summarized by Keynes in *The General Theory*.

*The Findings*
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The Cambridge team did not have access to statistics of national income and product accounting (NIPA). They did have some data on unemployment and prices, especially from the USA.

Keynes also identified several inherent logical problems with neoclassical economic theory about saving and investment. The theory said that all economic output of an economy would tend to be consumed; all saving would be invested; and all workers would be employed, *provided wages fell low enough*.


Keynes noted the economic mechanism by which investment occurs has little to do with the existing rate of saving; both are influenced by interest rates, but other forces come into play (e.g., liquidity preference for saving, business opportunities and user cost for investment). Hence, aggregate demand can drift very far out of alignment with output (or potential output).

Another finding was that employment rates actually did not respond in a predictable way to the fall in wages. The US economy suffered periods when a reduction in the wage level lead to increases in employment, despite the assumption that workers would have withdrawn from the labor market.

Finally, Keynes proposed the use of monetary policy and fiscal policy for regulating business cycles.
The *The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money* completely shook up the world of economic policy. Hereafter, governments took responsibility for economic conditions or they lost power.
by Abu Yahya March 3, 2009
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pre-employment

The time period between the end of one job and the conceivable beginning of another. Formerly known as unemployment.
After Sam left his job, he made sure to live it up during his newfound pre-employment period by buying a one-way ticket to Thailand.
by jandersonbaby September 29, 2013
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