Unemployment exacts a high cost to its victims, not only in lost income, but also in terms of quality of life (insecurity, depression, abandoned families, divorce, suicide, poorer health). It also exacts a high cost to society in terms of lost output, foregone tax revenue, depreciating human capital, and increased costs of welfare, crime, and health care. Yet modern wealthy societies have, ...
Year of publication: |
2008-10
|
---|---|
Authors: | Wisman, Jon D. |
Subject: | unemployment | employer of last resort | social morality | social rationality | happiness |
-
The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling
Wisman, Jon, (2010)
-
Vasconcelos, Daniel de Santana, (2014)
-
Why has labor not demanded guaranteed employment?
Wisman, Jon D., (2016)
- More ...
-
State lotteries : using state power to fleece the poor
Wisman, Jon D., (2006)
-
The moral imperative and social rationality of government-guaranteed employment and reskilling
Wisman, Jon D., (2010)
-
Creative destruction, economic insecurity, stress, and epidemic obesity
Wisman, Jon D., (2010)
- More ...