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Long‐Term Unemployment
Author(s) -
Leaper R. A. B.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1985.tb00214.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , full employment , economics , labour economics , commission , term (time) , structural unemployment , economic growth , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
The author writes from the viewpoint of Chairman of an Area Board of the Manpower Services Commission involved in practical responses to present unemployment and in training programmes for 16 to 18 year olds. He reviews the various interpretations of the nature of unemployment noting that a high level of unemployment is now very general in industrial societies. Training is an important adjunct to employment in a technological and rapidly‐changing society, but of itself it does not solve unemployment. Structural changes are required, many of these uncomfortable to the majority who are in profitable employment. Various partial remedies are reviewed but none of them on its own is found to be a full solution, neither is a reform of income distribution methods found satisfactory. The conclusion is that there are many aspects of unemployment and the solutions to it are complex and many‐facetted.