The Concept of Unemployment

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.