| underdeveloped economy:
... a developing
economy observed to have
dormant conditions of opportunity; a development
economy wherein conditions of
opportunity are static but it is believed that an infusion
of, for example, wealth and talent for manipulating and
managing would trigger vitality. The expression
underdeveloped
nation is universally
recognized as a reference to a country with low level economic
development in terms of its relationship to social
development, such as life expectancy improvement,
medical and allied health care availability, education
and
skills
training access. NationMaster.com,
one of the resources available through the Enterprise
and Economic Development Library, can add more to this
definition. Suggestion: Copy and paste the following italicized
text
lines to the search
engine above: NationMaster "underdeveloped countries" and
NationMaster "underdeveloped regions" (keep
quotation marks). You will be Googling
the Web.
underemployment:
... a condition that exists when workers
earn less than their potential; an inequality between production
skills and wages paid
by an employer; the mismatch between the skills workers
provide on the job and financial
compensation. The underemployed are included in labor
market surveys because they are likely to be enticed
by better pay for the skills they have. Economic
development is achieved by creating job opportunities
for the underemployed.
unemployment:
... a condition that exists when a laborforce has
workers able, ready and willing to accept employment but
have no jobs; a statistical measure defined as a percentage
of a laborforce. A tight labor market is generally indicated
by a statistical reporting of less-than-3% unemployed
(some members of a laborforce may be considered
unemployable).
Events such as recent closings or layoffs may not
show up in statistics or labor information available from
indirect sources. It is advisable, therefore, to investigate
a labor market by communicating with employers in a place
of interest or with local
development representatives.
unemployment insurance:
... a scheme supported by special taxation
to provide for workers who become unemployed through no
fault of their own. Tax-rates or
contributions generally vary based on the individual records of enterprises
for laying off workers.
union:
... a special
interest group made up people that work in
a particular industry or trade; an organization which,
at its best, maintains a position of influence
and
power that
employers respect and negotiates
laborforce issues such as job benefits, wages, working
conditions, safety, training, and legitimate grievances
with a view towards the voice of the customer and community
vitality. At it worst, a union agitates and advocates
a polarization of labor and management in a community
to the detriment of its economic development or sustainability.
union density:
... recognition of unionization in
an area or in labor market by a percentage figure. For
example,
the number of union members divided
by the total number in a workforce.
unionization ... the process
of forming a union. to Unionization is also a term used to
express union
density at a facility or in a location.
Unionization directly influences economic
development but doesn't contribute to the process. It brings
about negative economic development, however, when an enterprise
operation shuts down and jobs are exported from a location due
to labor-management
disputes.
unionized labor:
... employed and unemployed workers identified
and grouped together as members of representative organizations
which stands between them and their employers. To be unionized
means that a group is under the influence or control of
one or more unions.
A unionized area has a significant union
density which, if that is the case, is generally
of interest to enterprise developers and site selectors. The
perception of a unionized area should be clarified by looking
closely
at the historic record of its orientation toward unionization in
combination with attitudes and actions that polarize labor
and management
unrealized gain / unrealized loss:
... to obtain a value, usually through
an accounting process, without an actual conversion to
money. The term is used to identify a cash
value in terms of its relationship to taxes. It's important to understand
how the specific tax recognizes unrealized gain or loss see realized
gain or loss.
unskilled:
... someone who is not required to use
reasoning to perform work. Usually such a person is called
an unskilled worker. Someone in a
group of unskilled people may be said to be in an unskilled workforce,
unskilled labor
force, or unskilled labor
pool.
urban area:
... the sprawling region surrounding
a city and reflecting its environment; the more densely
populated and developed land which appears as contiguous
to a city and which also has its characteristics as
compared to the environment which is deemed to be rural
in the region.
urbanized area:
... a center of population and the adjacent
densely settled places contiguous to it. Some definitions
include numbers to qualify a place as densely
settled, for example, a community may be considered
urbanized at a population density of 1000 persons per square
mile. There may be places that are not so densely populated
within an urbanized area that are included as part of it
for spatial continuity. In general, those unfamiliar with
the composition of an urban area tend to identify it by
the name of the city they see as its population center.
Urbanization has taken place around transportation
centers throughout the world. The cities are centers
of regional economies. Whole regions are often referred
to simply by the names of cities. This being the case, The
Network uses the term city-region.
urban land:
... urban area real
estatesee
the
page where city-region is defined in Site Location
Assistance.com. Urban
Land is also a magazine published by the Urban
Land Institute.
URL address string:
... URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource
Locator (URLs, aka URIs)
... (they) are short strings that identify
resources in the web according to the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C).
A string is
a linier layout, i.e., grammatical production
of a Web address generated in
a functional language of the World
Wide Web. URL address string is defined here
with example below as a reference for users of The
Network who call for delivery
on its search
promise or suggest a resourcesee Search
for a Resource.
If you are referring to this information because you want to
share a Web address with
us (who we are),
all you need to know is that you can copy a string from the URL
display field of your browse, then paste
it in the the memo section of your emailsend
an email.
The URL address string for the webpage you are using, including the link
to this definition:
http://www.findmehere.com/search/dictionary/u_index.htm#url
... In popular language, a URL is
also referred to as a Web address (source
of quote).
.
user group:
... users
who come together because of they have common interest
in a specific type of resource available
online. The
Network, for example, identifies a target
audience. When visitors enter
.network websites to
discover what resources they offer, they may choose to
come together as users. To understand why coming together is
emphasized take a look a three
things you may like to know about using The Network. It
should be pointed out that by referring to this definition
you now have a membership in our
user group (who
we are).
users:
... those who avail themselves of resources,
for example, members of
the .network user
group. You are using a
glossary provided by The Network. You may be
doing so because you are have a general curiosity or
a specific interest in the enterprise
and economic development process. In the latter
case, your interest is likely to make you a mission
participant.
utilities:
... plural of utility;
a category of economic
development information that may
be found in a community
profile. All other items of selection
criteria being equal, having
utilities, such as water, sewer,
and
energy,
readily available at a
suitable
real
estate
site in a location is
a competitive edge over another place that can only
say that it will be delivered in the future.
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