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Unemployment in developing countries : new light on an old problem
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Turnham, David Eröcal, Deniz |
| Copyright Year | 1990 |
| Abstract | In the 1960s and 1970s a number of views were formed about unemployment in developing countries, which have remained largely accepted since then. The views can be summarized as three propositions: a) the poor cannot afford to become unemployed; b) labour markets in developing countries are always sufficiently open and flexible for work to be found, so that c) unemployment is a reflection of the search for jobs with high earnings on the part of those able to finance search costs. In contrast, the conclusions of this review are that the poor can be and are increasingly to be found in large numbers among the unemployed; many young people have great difficulty in finding any sort of work, especially regular work; unemployment is high and appears to have been rising over the past 20 years. In sum, in the light of this review of evidence, the conventional wisdom described in the so-called luxury unemployment hypothesis is seriously flawed and should be set aside. Les annees 60 et 70 ont vu naitre, dans les pays en developpement, nombre d'idees sur le chomage, qui, depuis lors, restent largement admises. Trois propositions en resument le contenu : a) les pauvres ne peuvent pas se permettre de devenir chomeurs ; b) le marche du travail dans les pays en developpement est toujours suffisamment ouvert et flexible pour qu'on y trouve du travail ; c) de ce fait, le chomage provient de la recherche d'emplois a hauts salaires de la part des couches sociales capables de financer le cout de leur quete de travail. Contrairement aux idees recues, cette etude conclut que ce sont les pauvres qui figurent, et ce, de facon croissante, parmi les chomeurs ; quantite de jeunes eprouvent de grandes difficultes a trouver quelque travail que ce soit, surtout un emploi regulier ; le chomage est eleve et n'a cesse de progresser au cours des vingt dernieres annees. L'hypothese d'un chomage qu'on pourrait appeler "de luxe" se revele donc insuffisante, voire ... |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
