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Title: Unemployment Issues


1
Unemployment Issues
  • Incidence
  • Official definitions
  • Who becomes unemployed
  • How is unemployment experienced
  • a) Gender
  • b) Class
  • 5. The unemployment career

2
UK Unemployment Post-Thatcher
  • All Male Female E.C
  • 1990 5.8 7 .5 3.5 8.4
  • 1991 8.0 10.7 4.5 8.7
  • 1992 9.8 13.2 5.3 9.5
  • 1993 10.4 14.0 5.6 10.7
  • 1994 9.6 12.7 5.1 11.1
  • 1995 8.7 11.2 4.5 10.7
  • 1996 8.2 10.3 4.1 10.9
  • 1997 5.4 7.3 3.0 10. 6

3
Unemployment Race
  • Handout

4
Official Unemployment Statistics
  • International Labour Organisation definition
  • percentage of unemployed persons in the
    economically active population who are without
    work during the survey period and are available
    for work and actively seeking work
  • UK Definitions
  • 1993 Unemployed job-seekers
  • 1997 Unemployed actively seeking work

5
Unemployment 2003
  • EU Average
  • Unemployed 9.1 (range 2.0 ? 31.8)
  • female 10.0
  • UK
  • Unemployed 5.0 (range N. Yorks 2.7? Inner
    London 8.8)
  • female 4.3.

6
Employment Unemployment
  • UK Average (November 2004)
  • unemployed 4.6 (1.38m).
  • working-age group in employment 74.7

7
Local Labour Market
  • Aberdeen City (mid-year 2004)
  • unemployed 3.6. (N.B 7.6 are economically
    active and wanting a job (i.e. change the
    definition and the statistics change)
  • males 3.8 females 3.5.
  • working age group in employment 79.7
  • Sources Eurostat National Statistics Online
    NOMIS

8
Political Context
  • Being out of work ? being unemployed
  • Changing history of the politics of
    unemployment
  • Labour market de-regulation.
  • Social construction of unemployment. official
    statistics
  • Unemployment and stigmatisation

9
Labour Market Unemployment
  • Being out of unemployed ? being work
  • Availability of informal work the grey
    economy
  • Grey economy reproduces the distribution of
    advantages of the formal economy

10
Vulnerability to Unemployment
  • self-exclusion from official statistics
  • secondary sector employees,
  • migrants and members of ethnic minorities,
  • non-unionised workers,
  • the long-term unemployed and sick
  • hireable fireable undesirable?

11
Social Structure Experience of Unemployment
  • Class middle class deviance
  • working class solidarity
  • Gender female vulnerability
  • male self-identity

12
The Unemployed Career
  • Stages of unemployment and emotion
  • The self-fulfilling prophecy and long term
    employment
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