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Some Characteristics of Unemployment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2020
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Unemployment in the United Kingdom has now probably begun to rise. This note is based on an analysis of the figures during the last 10-15 years; its purpose is to show—mainly in chart form— some of the characteristics of unemployment in this country.
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- Copyright © 1966 National Institute of Economic and Social Research
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note (1) page 33 A recent article in the Ministry of Labour Gazette (April, page 156) gave a classification of the unemployed, giving the Employment Exchange's judgment of their employability. Since this note was written, more details of the unemployment structure, by age, were given in a further article in the Ministry of Labour Gazette, for July, page 385.
note (2) page 33 All the figures in this article are taken from the Ministry of Labour Gazette. Definitions and explanations are given, where necessary, in the footnotes to the charts and tables.
note (3) page 33 Because of the changes in the Standard Industrial Classification in 1958 the analysis is in two parts : 1950-58 and 1959-65.
note (1) page 34 See footnote (b) to table 2 for a description of the calculation.
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