disemployment

dis·em·ploy

(dĭs′ĕm-ploi′)

tr.v. dis·em·ployed, dis·em·ploy·ing, dis·em·ploys

To cause (someone) to lose employment.

dis′em·ploy′ment n.

disemployment

(ˌdɪsɪmˈplɔɪmənt)

a removal from employment

References in periodicals archive ?

A supplementary analysis of employment for our low-wage groups suggests that this difference may be associated with a complete lack of any disemployment effect from higher wage minima in the 1990s.

Minimum wages and poverty

For all the prosperity, there is far too much inequality; for all the practiced tolerance, there is too much incivility; for all the push to the center, there is too much recrimination, too much polarization; for all the productivity, there is too much disemployment, too much meanness, too much commercialism; for all the rollback of bureaucracy and welfare statism, there is too much antigovernment paranoia, too much distrust of democracy.

More democracy! More revolution!

A minimum wage law set above the market clearing wage rate will cause some disemployment effect.

Controversy: is economics a moral science? A response to Ricardo F. Crespo

The effect is even smaller if potential disemployment effects of raising the minimum wage are considered.

Educational attainment, industrial structure, and male earnings through the 1980s

Finally, it should be observed that if there are disemployment effects we can get some measure of the inefficiency of the minimum wage policy.

The economics of the minimum wage

The coefficients for industry dummies are all positive and highly significant, indicating that manufacturing firms used as the reference category are more concerned about disemployment effects from the diffusion of AI and robotics.

Firms' expectations about the impact of AI and robotics: evidence from a survey

They include a disemployment effect in their model that varies by worker age, and they account for changes in prices and business profits, all of which have distributional consequences.

When is a good time to raise the minimum wage?

Our preferred specifications imply that the disemployment effect of indexing minimum wages to inflation is over 2.5 times the magnitude of the disemployment effect associated with nominal minimum wage increases.

Real and permanent minimum wages

point to much stronger trade disemployment effects (Freeman and Katz 1991; Revenga l992).

Technology, Trade Sensitivity, and Labor Displacement

depend on contentious projections about the disemployment effects of

Is the Clean Air Act unconstitutional?

The evidence regarding the employment effects of payroll taxes is limited, but the one study noted above suggests large disemployment effects.

The effect of government-mandated benefits on youth employment

The corporate project--to intensify the sphere of high-tech work without also expanding it--is a remedy of the hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you variety: more disemployment, more super-exploitation.