A collection of papers which analyzes and measures unemployment as a search activity, discusses efficiency wage models and which considers the impact of government and unions on employment and unemployment.

The logic of analysis of segmentation research; Segmentation of market relations and segmentation of unemployment; Data, measurement of variables, and techniques of analysis; Class segments and the structure of unemployment; Economic sectors and the distribution of the unemployed; Business cycle, economic sector, and unemployment.

The problems and issues of unemployment are given comprehensive coverage through discussions of measurement, theory and policy which are backed up with empirical evidence drawn from postwar experience in the United States and the United Kingdom.