Between 1977 and 1987, the country of Ravonia lost about 12, 000 jobs in logging and wood processing, representing a 15 percent decrease in employment in the country' s timber industry
Paradoxically, this loss of jobs occurred even as the amount of wood taken from the forests of Ravoinia increased by 10 percent
In 1977, overall unemployment in Ravonia was approximately 10 percent; in 1987, Ravonia's unemployment rate was 15 percent.