Workers who lose their jobs due to a temporary shock may become permanently unemployed because they miss out on the job training and skill acquisition that normally takes place.

They are the elderly poor, rural and suburban Americans, and the permanently unemployed who scrape together government payments like Social Security and food stamps.

He began to decry the "disaster" of automation, asserting that increasing thousands of workers would be permanently unemployed as a result of new machines and that "something ought to be done about it."

No, Buzz isn't important--it's the sickness that made us throw him up that we've got to attend to--the sickness of more than 30 per cent permanently unemployed, and growing larger.

They'd created a vast, permanently unemployed underclass, dependent upon the Republic's stupendous welfare machine for its very existence, and in so doing, they'd sown the seeds of their own destruction.

They say alcoholism, the bane and refuge of the permanently unemployed, seems to be abating.

For rich industrial nations, the problem of microelectronics and other new technologies boils down to managing the transition while many workers either change their employment, or join the ranks of the permanently unemployed.

Well-represented also are the city's "permanently unemployed prodigies," passing their lives "in drafty, high-ceilinged apartments, making the best of chipped china and threadbare linens."

He is disturbed by the appearance of an underclass of permanently unemployed, in the ghettos of the United States - people whom the majority class has no interest in helping to break out.

The labor force participation rate of the wife rises with the expectation that her husband will be unemployed permanently due to aging or other factors (Maloney, p. 183).