Theory of Unemployment - 9781138990272

Taylor & Francis

First Published in 1968. A reprinting of the original collection of essays on unemployment, from 1933, which are addressed to students of economics. Concerning the areas of the form of the real demand function for labour in particular occupations, the monetary factor, with the aim of a direct discussion on the causation of unemployment and its fluctuations. > Part 1 General Considerations; Part 1 Chapter 1 Definition of Unemployment; Part 1 Chapter 2 The Relation of Unemployment to Unfilled Vacancies; Part 1 Chapter 3 The Cost of Unemployment; Part 1 Chapter 4 The Meaning of Units of Real Wages; Part 1 Chapter 5 The Arithmetic of Employment; Part 1 Chapter 6 The Causation of Unemployment; Part 2 The Short Period Elasticity of the Real Demand for Labour; Part 2 Chapter 1 Introductory; Part 2 Chapter 2 Demand Functions and Elasticity of Demand; Part 2 Chapter 3 The Determination of the Short-Period Elasticity of Demand for Labour in Part icular Occupations, in Respect of a Given Reay