Abstract
In this chapter we will limit the terms ‘employment’ and ‘unemployment’ to apply only to labour. It might therefore be thought that defining unemployment would present no problem. Unemployment surely means that people do not have jobs. In reality, as usual, it is not so simple. There must be a distinction made between people who do not have jobs and do not want them, such as housewives and schoolchildren, and those who do not have jobs and do want them. Schoolchildren, housewives, pensioners, etc., should not create an unemployment problem for the government because they do not want to be part of the labour market.
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Further Reading
John Creedy (ed.), The Economics of Unemployment in Britain (Butterworth, 1981)
Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan, The Anatomy of Job Loss: The How, Why and Where of Employment Decline (Methuen, 1982)
Terry Baker, ‘Long-term Recovery: A Return to Full Employment?’, LBR (Jan 1982)
D. Metcalf, ‘Special Employment Measures: An Analysis of Wage Subsidies, Youth Schemes and Worksharing’, MBR (Autumn/Winter 1982)
Paul Ryan, ‘The New Training Initiative After Two Years’, LBR (April 1984)
J. R. Shackleton, ‘Economists and Unemployment’, NWBQR (Feb 1982)
Martin Timbrell, ‘Unemployment in the 1980s’, LBR (April 1980)
Jim Tomlinson, ‘Does Mass Unemployment Matter?’, NWBQR (Feb 1983)
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Evans-Pritchard, J. (1985). Unemployment. In: Macroeconomics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17926-8_13
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