The group almost nobody counts: people who gave up looking are not unemployed in the official statistics

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Unemployment caused by unpaid caregiving is not the same animal as unemployment caused by a plant closure Does hidden unemployment count as a type at all: surplus farm labour and gig workers padding their hours A whole industry shrinking and a single employer failing produce different kinds of joblessness even at the same headcount One career-long jobless spell versus a person who is out of work every second winter Is underemployment a type of unemployment: working twenty hours a week is not the same as working none Discouraged workers who stop looking after a year drop out of the unemployment count entirely A first-time entrant with no work history is a different unemployment type from a re-entrant who was laid off One hour of work last week is enough to be counted as employed in the household survey Voluntary versus involuntary unemployment: one is turning down work and the other is being turned down Long spells of joblessness stop being a duration problem and turn into a skills-atrophy problem