Unemployment: Terminology, Measurement, and AnalysisU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 113 páginas |
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1st quarter 3d quarter 40 hours 4th quarter 86th Congress aggregate demand analysis available labor force blue-collar workers changes chart civilian labor force Committee on Unemployment cyclical cyclical unemployment decline definitions economic activity economic part-time workers effect employed factors forecast frictional unemployment Full Employment full-time equivalent hours lost Ibid increase Joint Economic Committee July Keynes Labor Economics labor market Macmillan man-hours manufacturing married women measure ment million month nonfarm number of unemployed occupation group output part-time employment participation rates PERCENT OF LABOR persons Pigou ployed ployment postwar period Printing Office 1960 productivity rate of unemployment recession recovery relatively RICHARD BOLLING salary workers Schumpeter seasonal unemployment sectors short-run Special Committee structural unemployment TABLE technological teenagers trends type of unemployment U.S. Government Printing U.S. Senate unem unemployment caused Unemployment Problems unemployment rate unemployment resulting United States Senate Variable standard wage and salary WILLIAM PROXMIRE workweek
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Página 27 - Men are involuntarily unemployed if, in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage, both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment.
Página 97 - The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and state and local governments...
Página 97 - Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful...
Página 29 - But if our central controls succeed in establishing an aggregate volume of output corresponding to full employment as nearly as is practicable, the classical theory comes into its own again from this point onwards.
Página 28 - ... unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry. Something similar is required today in economics. We need to throw over the second postulate of the classical doctrine and to work out the behaviour of a system in which involuntary unemployment in the strict sense is possible ([13], pp.
Página 36 - This statement, which was prepared by the Office of Statistical Standards of the Bureau of the Budget, is based on special analysis J of the 1958 budget document.
Página 28 - We take as given the existing skill and quantity of available labour, the existing quality and quantity of available equipment, the existing technique, the degree of competition...
Página 26 - There will always be at work a strong tendency for wage-rates to be so related to demand that everybody is employed. Hence, in stable conditions everyone will actually be employed.
Página 14 - US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. "The Extent and Nature of Frictional Unemployment.
Página 28 - Our present object is to discover what determines at any time the national income of a given economic system and (which is almost the same thing) the amount of its employment...