IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-37300-6_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Jobless Men and Working Women

In: Growth, Unemployment, Distribution and Government

Author

Listed:
  • Vani K Borooah

    (University of Ulster)

Abstract

The discussion in the preceding chapter, on search-based measures of unemployment, pointed to two routes out of unemployment. The first, the ‘high’ road, was to escape unemployment by securing a job and the second, the ‘low’ road, was to leave the labour force by ceasing to search for jobs (that is, to transfer from unemployment into inactivity). A journey down either of these ways would lead to an improvement in the unemployment statistics. By the same token, the pool of unemployed persons is fed from two sources: job losses, which cause people to transfer from employment into unemployment (provided, of course, that this is accompanied by job search) and renewed job search, which results in jobless persons rejoining the labour force by transferring from inactivity into unemployment. The previous chapter emphasised the employment creation route out of unemployment. This chapter discusses the effect on unemployment of withdrawals from the labour market.

Suggested Citation

  • Vani K Borooah, 1996. "Jobless Men and Working Women," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Growth, Unemployment, Distribution and Government, chapter 8, pages 67-73, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37300-6_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230373006_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37300-6_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.