TY - JOUR
AU - Gilpatrick, Eleanor
AB - ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT: A VIEW OF THE STRUCTURAL-INADEQUATE DEMAND DEBATE ELEANOR GILPATRICK IN A recent article, N. J. Simler intro- the theoretical underpinnings of the vari- duced an analysis of structural un- ous empirical tests offered. employment with the comment that the The public debates, under way since "rise-in-structural-unemployment hypoth- 1960, have largely revolved around the esis" might already be a dead but question of whether postwar horse, structural "all versions of the argument have not changes in technology, final demand, and been given the attention they deserve."' the location of industry have been the As a matter of fact, the on literature chief contributors to high unemployment structural vs. demand levels or whether high unemployment has unemployment generated much heat but little work on rates have been due primarily to insuffi- cient spending relative to the productive Efforts to explain the cause of the high level of unemployment which has capacity of the labor force. persisted from 1957 until recently have divided into two economists This article is an attempt to define a factions-those who contend that structural theoretical framework for empirical anal- changes in technology, product demand, and location of industry have been responsible and 
TI - On the Classification of Unemployment: A View of the Structural-Inadequate Demand Debate
JF - ILR Review
DO - 10.1177/001979396601900203
DA - 1966-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/on-the-classification-of-unemployment-a-view-of-the-structural-16HYhuqAGE
SP - 201
EP - 212
VL - 19
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -