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... a condition that exists when workers
earn less than their potential; an inequality between production
skills and wages payed 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:
... the linear layout of information
about an online address;
the complete domain
name as a string of
functional text for a URL (Universal Resource Locator)
which is the address of a place on the World
Wide Web. The string of information that leads
to a page on the Web must be laid out in an absolutely
correct manner. This includes adding a marker or anchor
at the end for linking to a specific point on
a page. The promise
of The
Network is
a commitment to your complete satisfaction when you search
or otherwise avail yourself of its resources. To report
a problem or request free search assistance, it's important
to provide the appropriate address
string as part of your email memo.
It's easy to include the URL. All you need to do is copy
and paste it from the URL
display field of your browser.
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user group:
... a number of users identified
together because they have a
unifying relationship; the target
audience of .network users that The
Network; an audience attracted
to an online resource whose members avail
themselves of what it offers. Users are distinctly different
from visitors in that the latter movie on without taking
an interest or availing themselves of something offered.
It tends
to be misleading when the implication is made that a website
or page is popular or has something of value to offer
based simply on counting visitors. Visitors, however, are
all too often counted as so called hits (one source of
information about
hit, page and web counters defines them as ... devices
which display the number of visits which have been made
to a website or page within a website). The points
about hit and visitors are moot when it comes to .network users.
The only concern we have for hits on our websites is
when we are contacted and asked to deliver on
our
promise or to add a resource or location or
contact name. To read our contact instructions, CLICK
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user:
... someone who avails himself or herself
of a resource.
For example, those online visiting
websites who stop to glean information. The
Network has websites which are open
to all visitors. As an online
information service it's
designed to be of interest to a defined user
group.
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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