Households with unemployed workers are adversely
affected by joblessness in many ways. For workers who
have been displaced through no fault of their own—
specifically, who lost or left a job because their plant or
company closed or moved, because there was insufficient
work for them to do or because their position or shift was
abolished—the drop in earnings associated with
losing a job during a recession may persist for many years,
even when these workers eventually find a new job.