Resignation to permanent joblessness

It is believed that many permanently discouraged workers fail to register as unemployed, notably in the USA, thus diminishing the apparent levels of unemployed in surveys.

1. Increasing proportions of young people are turning their backs on the possibility of work and are becoming resigned to a life on social security. Many young people in urban problem communities have parents and grandparents who have never been in stable employment. They see no realistic chance that they will ever find a place in the labour market. It is hard to convince them that there is any point in going to school.

1. Voluntary unemployment
2. Stigma of unemployment
3. Resignation to problems
4. Resignation
5. Disguised unemployment
6. Alienation from work

1. Unchecked poverty cycle
2. Evasion of work

1. Workers uninterested in production
2. Loss of the significance of work
3. Long-term unemployment
4. Limited opportunities for significant work
5. Lack of jobs
6. Insecurity of changing patterns of work
7. Increasing job monotony
8. Inaccessible job market

1. Supporting unemployed workers
2. Rejecting possibility of work
3. Improving work experience
4. Combatting long-term unemployment
5. Accepting possibility of work
6. Accepting permanent joblessness

1. Work
2. Resignation
3. Rejection
4. Overwork
5. Discouragement