TY - JOUR
AU - Norris, G. M.
AB - UNEMPLOYMENT, SUBEMPLOYMENT AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS^ (A) The Inadequacies of Traditional Approaches to Unemployment G. M. Norris his is the first of two articles which use data derived from a recent study of two local labour markets to illustrate certain deficiencies of traditional approaches to the study of unemploy- ment amongst men. The dominant elements of previous work on un- employment have been the concentration on long term single periods of unemployment and a consequential emphasis on the explanatory role played by the personal characteristics of the workless. In the first paper the conceptual and empirical difficulties of this approach are examined through the introduction of the concept of subemploy- ment and by a brief analysis of the individual attributes of sub- employed men in the two samples. The second article, which will appear in the next number of the Sociological Review, makes use of more detailed evidence from the study to suggest the basis for an alternative approach to the study of this problem. Since the analysis by Fowler of the official unemployment register, in which he attempted to estimate the probabilities of the currently registered remaining on the register in the future,^ work on unemploy- ment in Great 
TI - Unemployment, Subemployment and Personal Characteristics
JF - The Sociological Review
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1978.tb00125.x
DA - 1978-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/unemployment-subemployment-and-personal-characteristics-x32IgtTIWK
SP - 89
EP - 108
VL - 26
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -