How clear is the distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment?

... How clear is the distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment? How clear is the distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment? What might lead to an decrease in voluntary unemployment? Economists divide unemployment into five broad categories: frictional unemployment; structural unemployment; technological unemployment; classical unemployment; and demand deficient unemployment. An examination of each of these categories will show that some are more likely than others to be made up of workers who could work and do consider themselves part of the labour force, but nevertheless choose, for whatever reason, to remain unemployed. Others will be unlikely to contain the voluntarily unemployed, but will be made up of those who are unable to find work. Having examined these categories, we will proceed to draw up two models of unemployment which show clearly the distinction between voluntary and involuntary unemployment, and then go on to consider how voluntary unemployment might be reduced. Frictional

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