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Disguised and Overt Unemployment in Underdeveloped Economies

Paul Wonnacott

The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1962 · Volume 76 · Issue 2

DOI: 10.2307/1880820

Abstract

Introduction, 279. — I. The basic postulate: the wage-work unit relationship, 280. — II. Disguised unemployment when institutional rigidities exist, 284. — III. A relaxation of institutional rigidities: overt unemployment, 288. — IV. Policy implications, 289. — V. A relaxation of the assumptions, 292. — VI. Comments on the literature: Leibenstein and Mazumdar, 295. — VII. Conclusions, 297.

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