The North East is one de-industrialised region with persistent
hidden unemployment.
Some
hidden unemployment problems will float to the surface to intensify unemployment pressure, and it will be a threat to job stability next year," the NDRC's think tank said, in the report, adding that investment growth, which stood at 10.
Another form of
hidden unemployment in statistics comes from counting as employed anyone who did any work for pay (or profit if self-employed) in the week before the government survey.
Unemployment is always present in a market economy, in various forms: classical, cyclical (Keynesian pattern and/ or model), frictional, structural, seasonal, hardcore or
hidden unemployment.
The latest episode boosts the currently popular joke in Ankara's political circles, that "Davutoy-lu is the prime example of the
hidden unemployment in Turkey.
These people are those who have apparently found a job for themselves and have had a salary and benefits, but in fact they get involved in
hidden unemployment and do not play any role in national production.
Older workers also have growing rates of underemployment (working part time but desiring full-time jobs),
hidden unemployment (not seeking but want unemployment), and mal-employment (working at jobs well below their education or career level).
Professor Steve Fothergill, one of the report's co-authors, said poorer areas like Merseyside had the highest levels of
hidden unemployment.
But experts say the figures do not reflect the overall picture because of widespread undeclared or
hidden unemployment, or the employment of educated, qualified people in menial jobs.
International literature has included the work by Little (2006), Fieldhouse and Hollywood (1999) and Green and Owen (1998) into
hidden unemployment and economic activity in the UK; Sa'di and Lewin-Epstein (2001) in Israel; Hilst and Schuup (2000) in Germany; and Partridge (2001) in North America.
So, the
hidden unemployment has now come out in the open and is for yours to see.
It can be solved by forcing
hidden unemployment in the labor to other non-agricultural sectors, implementing precision agriculture, improving agricultural labor absorption capacity of the unit of land, internalizing surplus agricultural labor in agricultural production, agricultural productivity, the overall efficiency of agricultural production and agricultural production growth.
