Where Are They Now?: A Follow‐Up Study of the Unemployed

Of people who were registered as un‐employed in the autumn of 1973, and were still of working age three years later in the autumn of 1976, only 38% had jobs. Thirty‐four per cent were still out of work or out of work again. Twenty‐eight per cent did not have jobs but were no longer looking for work because of their age, or state of health or because they had become housewives. Over a third, 36%, had not worked at any stage in the intervening years. Furthermore, 14% of those registered as unemployed in October 1973 had become officially retired and few of them had worked at all in the following three years.