disguised unemployment

disguised (concealed) unemployment

a form of UNEMPLOYMENT in which people able and willing to work do not register as unemployed and seeking work, which results in their absence from the official unemployment figures. Unless there are clear incentives for people to register as unemployed (by, for example, linking registration with entitlement to unemployment payments) then the official unemployment figure may considerably understate the actual level of unemployment. See POVERTY TRAP.
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Taking into consideration the predominance of informal economy, endeavour has to be made a method-mix of capital and labour intensive technology to deal with the problems of unemployment, underemployment and disguised unemployment egregiously prevalent in the Indian economy.
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The "official" unemployment rate in the United States, at 4.9 per cent, masks much higher levels of disguised unemployment, which, at the very least, are holding down wages.
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