That figure includes not only the "official" unemployed--people just laid off or otherwise out of work but actively looking for employment--but also workers who would prefer to have full-time jobs but who have accepted part-time work; workers who are only marginally attached to the economy; and--perhaps the hardest to reach and measure, "non" labor force--the
discouraged worker.
Ibon said the number of underemployed and
discouraged worker are also rapidly rising, noting that underemployed Filipinos increased by 847,000 to 7.
While these shifts are ongoing, Bosworth says "the surprise lies with the growing magnitude of the perceived
discouraged worker component.
This group might be considered a kind of 'partly
discouraged worker,' analogous to the usual category we might call 'fully discouraged.
A
discouraged worker is one who has given up the job search because of perceived poor prospects--that is, the chance of getting a job is not worth the effort one would have to exert to find it.
These are the
discouraged worker phenomenon, the use of inventories
This result is referred to as the
discouraged worker effect.
It's something that economists refer to as the
discouraged worker factor," Delay said.
A part of that increased growth should come from the
discouraged worker group -- those who were not looking for a job because they believed no job was available.
0 million in 1994--the so-called "hidden unemployed," at least as measured through the new
discouraged worker concept, were a relatively small group.
Considerable tightening of the requirements for
discouraged worker status reduced the number of persons so classified by about half.
France, the country with the highest unemployment rate, ranked in the middle of the range on the total underutilization basis because its
discouraged worker rates were very low.
