Accounts Quote by Kenneth Arrow

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages,…

— Dale T. Mortensen

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

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

— Henry Ford

“It is a misconception to think of the function or result of machines as primarily one of creating jobs . The real result of…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

I've never believed unemployment numbers because the way that they calculate unemployment makes no sense whatsoever. It's not how many people are unemployed. It's…

— Suze Orman

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

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

— Joan Robinson

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is…

— Ludwig von Mises

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but…

— Anonymous