UNEMPLOYMENT AND JOB SHARING 

ABSTRACT

The rate of job creation is discussed. On current trends 2,500,000 jobs will be created by the end of the century. The relationship between voluntary and involuntary unemployment is considered. Social engineering identified as a cause of  large scale (>1,000,000) and long term unemployment with a total cost in excess of $1 trillion (2009).  Simple job creation is shown to be unable to reduce unemployment. Solutions to the current dilemma considered. Survey methods shown to be inadequate to identify both unemployment leading to poverty and voluntary unemployment, leading to incorrect assessment of economic well being and consequent incorrect policy decisions.

Voluntary and involuntary unemployment, and the relationship between the two, are also discussed.

It can also be seen that the simple creation of more jobs will not necessarily reduce unemployment, because the new jobs will not necessarily go to people currently unemployed. There is every indication that more people will simply enter the work force, resulting in further unemployment, unless or until the appetite of the population as a whole for employment and or wealth is sated.

Finally, it can also be seen that survey methods which worked at one time may no longer be appropriate in the current economic climate. There are many reasons why someone will want work, but proportionately very few of them may now be directly related to poverty.

Simple unemployment as such cannot validly be used as a measure of poverty when the reasons for wanting work, coupled with economic circumstances are not also given.

While this data is available at the moment it requires the cross correlation of a large quantity of otherwise disparate information. It is not available in a manner and form which can be presented to the public in a clear and understandable form. This matter must be addressed.

Contact:  georgebl@iprimus.com.au