<P> Note that the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic is not directly blamed for the Nazi rise--the Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic occurred primarily in the period 1921--23, which was contemporary with Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, and is blamed for damaging the credibility of democratic institutions, but the Nazis did not assume government until 1933, ten years after the hyperinflation but in the midst of high unemployment . </P> <P> Rising unemployment has traditionally been regarded by the public and media in any country as a key guarantor of electoral defeat for any government which oversees it . This was very much the consensus in the United Kingdom until 1983, when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government won a landslide in the general election, despite overseeing a rise in unemployment from 1,500,000 to 3,200,000 since its election four years earlier . </P> <P> The primary benefit of unemployment is that people are available for hire, without being headhunted away from their existing employers . This permits new and old businesses to take on staff . </P> <P> Unemployment is argued to be "beneficial" to the people who are not unemployed in the sense that it averts inflation, which itself has damaging effects, by providing (in Marxian terms) a reserve army of labour, that keeps wages in check . However, the direct connection between full local employment and local inflation has been disputed by some due to the recent increase in international trade that supplies low - priced goods even while local employment rates rise to full employment . </P>

Term for unemployment associated with periods of recession