1. World problems
  2. Voluntary unemployment

Voluntary unemployment

Nature

Voluntary unemployment has been described as a 'bourgeois problem', as it usually involves members of the educated classes who prefer to remain unemployed rather than accept work below the type they feel they can expect to obtain or at a wage lower than that paid to other workers with comparable levels of education.

Counter-claim

If such people did accept less qualified and less well paid work, it would lower their probability of getting the desired employment later and would therefore lower their expected lifetime income.

Broader

Unemployment
Excellent

Narrower

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Value

Voluntary
Yet to rate
Unemployment
Yet to rate
Underemployment
Yet to rate
Involuntary
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Subject
  • Social activity » Unemployment
  • Social activity » Voluntary
  • Content quality
    Presentable
     Presentable
    Language
    English
    Last update
    Nov 29, 2022