A whole industry shrinking and a single employer failing produce different kinds of joblessness even at the same headcount

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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 A first-time entrant with no work history is a different unemployment type from a re-entrant who was laid off Fiscal transfers keep declining regions afloat without creating a single job there The group almost nobody counts: people who gave up looking are not unemployed in the official statistics When an industry migrates the whole supply chain leaves and the workers left behind are not unskilled but stranded Unemployment caused by unpaid caregiving is not the same animal as unemployment caused by a plant closure 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 Unemployment among youth / graduates / women / over-50s is not one problem wearing four labels