Measuring Unemployment: Family Considerations
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Human Relations
- Vol. 33 (3) , 183-192
- https://doi.org/10.1177/001872678003300303
Abstract
Unemployment statistics are based on aggregates of individuals, not families, yet the family as a unit suffers from unemployment-especially of the major wage earner. This paper explores the ramifications of using the individual rather than the family as the unit of analysis. Two issues in particular are discussed: the tendency to equate employment/unemployment with family economic well-being and the narrow operationalization of the term "unemployed." Policy implications in the form of additional indicators are discussed.Keywords
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