The Private and Social Costs of Unemployment
Title | The Private and Social Costs of Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | Martin S. Feldstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 11 |
Release | 1978* |
Genre | Unemployed |
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This short note emphasizes and illustrates two basic points: (1) The private costs of unemployment, i.e., the costs borne by the unemployed themselves, vary substantially and are often extremely low. This low private cost is an important cause of the permanently high unemployment rate in the United States. (2) The social costs of unemployment, i.e., the costs of unemployment to the nation as a whole regardless of how they are distributed, must be judged by considering the specific policy by which a worker would be reemployed. It is wrong to regard unemployment as either without cost (because the unemployed enjoy the opportunity for job search and leisure) or as having a cost equal to lost output. Examples are given to show that output may overstate or understate true social cost, depending on the options available for reemployment
Some Social Costs of Unemployment
Title | Some Social Costs of Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | A. Maureen O'Brien |
Publisher | |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Unemployed |
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The Price of Prosperity
Title | The Price of Prosperity PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Taylor |
Publisher | UNSW Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780868405414 |
While our leaders celebrate Australia’s ‘economic miracle’, unemployment, particularly long-term unemployment, has become a permanent feature of Australia’s economic landscape. Its unacceptably high level has proved remarkably resistant in the face of sustained economic growth and increased prosperity. The adverse economic and social consequences of high unemployment are likely to leave long-term scars on those affected, as well as on local communities and the entire fabric of Australian society. Yet these effects rarely feature on the policy agenda, and the costs of unemployment remain largely invisible.
The Social Costs of Underemployment
Title | The Social Costs of Underemployment PDF eBook |
Author | David Dooley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2003-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1139449443 |
Going beyond the usual focus on unemployment, this 2004 book explores the health effects of other kinds of underemployment including forms of inadequate employment as involuntary part-time and poverty wage work. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this compares falling into unemployment versus inadequate employment relative to remaining adequately employed. Outcomes include self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and low birth weight. The panel data permit study of the plausible reverse causation hypothesis of selection. Because the sample is national and followed over two decades, the study explores cross-level effects (individual change and community economic climate) and developmental transitions. Special attention is given to school leavers and welfare mothers, and, in cross-generational analysis, the effect of mothers' employment on babies' birth weights. There emerges a way of conceptualizing employment status as a continuum ranging from good jobs to bad jobs to employment with implications for policy on work and health.
The Social Costs of Unemployment
Title | The Social Costs of Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Unemployment |
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Costs of Unemployment
Title | Costs of Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | P. N. Junankar |
Publisher | Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Costs of Unemployment
Title | Costs of Unemployment PDF eBook |
Author | P. N. Junankar |
Publisher | Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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