Crise global de empregos em 2009 (Fuvest 2010)
[Imagem que abre o texto: capa/abertura de reportagem da revista The Economist, de 14 de março de 2009, com o título “Briefing Unemployment”; ilustração mostra uma multidão de pessoas enfileiradas atrás de grades metálicas, como numa fila de desempregados.]
Last month America’s unemployment rate climbed to 8,1%, the highest in a quarter of a century. For those newly out of a job, the chances of finding another soon are the worst since records began 50 years ago. In China 20m 5 migrant workers (maybe 3% of the labour force) have been laid off. Cambodia’s textile industry, its main source of exports, has cut one worker in ten. In Spain the building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds in a year, to 14.8% in January. And in Japan, where 10 official unemployment used to be all but unknown, tens of thousands of people on temporary contracts are losing not just their jobs but also the housing provided by their employers. The next phase of the world’s economic downturn is 15 taking shape: a global jobs crisis. Its contours are only just becoming clear, but the severity, breadth and likely length of the recession, together with changes in the structure of labour markets in both rich and emerging economies, suggest the world is about to undergo its biggest increase 20 in unemployment for decades.
The Economist, March 14th 2009.
Fonte: The Economist, March 14th 2009.
De acordo com o texto, publicado em março de 2009,
- A) o aumento de postos de trabalho é vital para as economias emergentes.
- B) a crise mundial poderia afetar sobretudo os países mais pobres.
- C) a estrutura do mercado de trabalho vigente em países ricos é a principal responsável pela crise.
- D) o mundo poderia enfrentar a maior crise de desemprego das últimas décadas.
- E) a crise que a economia mundial vivencia vem sendo anunciada há décadas.