Above Quote by Dale T. Mortensen

I don't believe that unemployment is all voluntary, by anticipation of future wage movements or this sort of thing. I know you can modify…

— Kenneth Arrow

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

— Henry Ford

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

— William Beveridge

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

— Michael Foot

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That…

— Henry Ford

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed…

— Dale Spender

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a…

— Paul Krugman

When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must…

— James Callaghan

What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for…

— Arthur Laffer

In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply big companies…

— Caroline Lucas