术语“古典失业”的详细信息

英译术语:

classical unemployment

汉语语境:

古典失业又称工资性失业，这是由于工资刚性所引起的失业。按古典经济学家的假设，若工资具有完全的伸缩性，则通过工资的调节，便能实现人人都有工作。但由于人的本性不愿使工资收入下降，而工会的存在及最低工资法均限制了工资的下降，从而使工资具有能升不能降的所谓“工资刚性”。这种工资刚性的存在，会使一部分工人无法受雇，从而出现失业。这类失业在经济学上被成为“工资性失业”，也因这种失业是古典经济学家提出，故称为古典失业。

英语语境:

Classical unemployment, also known as wage unemployment, is caused by wage rigidity. According to the hypothesis of classical economists, if wages are fully flexible, everyone can be employed by the adjustment of wages. However, it is natural that no one wants his/her wage to be lowered, and the labor union and the minimum wage law restrict the fall of wages, hence wages possess the nature of so-called “wage rigidity”, which makes part of the workers be unemployed, hence appears unemployment. This type of unemployment in economics is known as “wage unemployment”. Because the unemployment is put forward by the classical economists, it's also called classical unemployment.