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Long-term claimants on work coaching schemes who remain jobless should face additional conditions after 12 months, rather than 18 currently, he argued.

The most recent jobless figure for California was 5.3% in August, although the state has in recent months been keeping pace with the national rate of job growth.

Summers’ words implied that 5.8 million to 15 million Americans would have to be rendered jobless in order to bring down inflation.

At one point, Chinese officials coined the term "slow employment" to describe those who were taking time to find a job - a separate category, they said, from the jobless.

Since young graduates are more actively looking for work than those who are mid-career, their jobless rate is more prone to fluctuations that can hint at corporate confidence and hiring trends.