Israel planes dropped leaflets asking Palestinian residents to help locate hostages taken by Hamas as the Gaza death toll hits 25,000.
  • Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I mean pretty much everyone in Gaza is without employment. Wasn’t the unemployment rate around 75% before October 7th? That’s just what happens if you block pretty much any trade and force a region to depend on outside humanitarian aid

    • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      No, the unemployment rate was not 75%.

      The disparity between Gaza and the West Bank is also reflected in unemployment rates, which over the period 2007-22 have been persistently higher in Gaza at an average of 39 percent, compared to 17 percent in the West Bank. This even as labor force participation rates have remained below 50 percent since the mid-1990s in both Gaza and the West Bank. The situation is particularly pronounced for youth and females in Gaza, where over two-thirds are unemployed, compared to less than a quarter in the West Bank.

      https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2023/327/article-A001-en.xml

      The atrocious unemployment is partially because women are essentially excluded from the labor market.

      • Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I remembered incorrectly, what I was thinking about was the percentage of people relying on international aid which is/was between 75% and 80%. I didn’t find anything on how the unemployment rates are calculated, are women even included in the total potential workforce? I’d guess so, because they are interested in reporting a number that’s as high as possible, but on the other hand they might not do that out of bigotry?

        Edit: Apparently yes women are counted towards the total and they are around 60% unemployed