JOB LOSERS: Unemployed workers who have been involuntarily laid off or fired from their jobs. This is one of the official categories or unemployed workers tracted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics when compiling employment statistics and the unemployment rate. It is also a key to the theoretical notion of cyclical unemployment. See also | unemployed | unemployment rate | cyclical unemployment | job losers | Current Population Survey | not in the labor force | employed persons | unemployed persons |
