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Thai Unemployment Rate Dips Below 1% in February


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57 minutes ago, 2baht said:

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

By Thai standards, those people, as well as the ones 'watching things in the city', (Thai) beggars, etc., are not unemployed... Wow, 'less than 1% unemployment', what a happy country it must be!

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1 hour ago, 2baht said:

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

According to Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul, only 360,000 people were without a job in February.

Please explain the many other folks who are not working now or in the previous jobs where they were paid under the table as they are still closed, or better yet those folks were never reported as working.

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I believe that when someone loses a job they go back to dad's farm and are counted as employees. No one is unemployed in a farm. 

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8 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

l think he's or she is joking , not serious just banter 

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13 hours ago, webfact said:

The deputy spokesperson attributed the low unemployment rate to policies implemented by the administration of Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Or could it be that in Thailand 5+ are employed to do the same job as a westerner.

Thaiwatsadu comes to mind....

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11 minutes ago, WHansen said:

Or could it be that in Thailand 5+ are employed to do the same job as a westerner.

I'm not sure that's still the case, looking at some of the western millennial loafers.

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13 hours ago, 2baht said:

How many does 'watching rice grow' account for?

Give over.

 

This is all about Bangkok.

 

Rural unemployment is a totally different matter.

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3 hours ago, PeterA said:

So I can safely assume fishing and sleeping are also a form of employment? My village is then fully employed!

Independence and self-sufficiency isn't reasoned as a way of life in particular Occidental circles.......as it doesn't exist in their world. Kinda sad. 

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12 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Might you be suggesting that farming/agricultural activities isn't work or proper employment?

It isn't classified as formal employment. Thailand's 'Unemployment Rate' only considers those registered as employed and paying taxes, which comprises approximately 60% of the working population. The informal sector, which includes most of agriculture, makes up the other 40%.

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14 hours ago, sherwood said:

Today is the 1st of May not April.

What a load of $hit.

When 80% of the workforce work for cash and pay no tax how on earth can they claim they know unemployment is running below 1%.  So pathetically third world.

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11 hours ago, Sweet Swede said:

Easy to get 1%, when almost nobody report that  they are unemployd.

They need to give out unemployment benefits, then the numbers would really swell. 

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