The Concept of Unemployment

Clarence D. Long

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1942, vol. 57, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: Present status of the concept of unemployment, 1. — Willingness to work: gross and net unemployment, 7; statistical indications for 1940, 11. — Employability: marginal employables, 13; legal unemployables, 14; cumulative unemployment, 15; institutional unemployables, 18. — Suppressed unemployment: part-time unemployment of wage workers, 19; part-time unemployment of non-wage earners, 20; unproductive employment, 20; statistical estimates, 21. — Summary of statistical approximations, 25. — Recommendations for improving current estimates, 27. — Conclusion, 28.

Date: 1942
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