Unemployment

Definition: Unemployment is the state of an individual looking for a paying job but not having one.

Unemployment does not include full-time students, the retired, children, or those not actively looking for a paying job.

Terms related to Unemployment:

• Frictional Unemployment
• Cyclical Unemployment
• Structrual Unemployment
• Unemployment Rate

About.Com Resources on Unemployment:

• Would 0% Unemployment Be a Good Thing?
• Globalization, Unemployment and Recessions. What is the Link?
• Why Do We Use the Unemployment Rate? Writing a Term Paper? Here are a few starting points for research on Unemployment:

  Books on Unemployment:

  • Search Theory and Unemployment
  • The Economics of Unemployment
  • Environmental Fiscal Reform and Unemployment
  Journal Articles on Unemployment:
  • Equilibrium unemployment as a worker discipline device
  • Migration, unemployment and development: a two-sector analysis
  • Unemployment and labor market rigidities