Extent of Disguised Unemployment

The magnitude of disguised unemployment in the under developed countries  has been roughly estimated at about 25% a study by the Royal institute of International Affairs in 1943 estimated disguised unemployment for the Eastern European regions as the lowest at 20 to 25%. Doreen Warriner placed the surplus labor in Egypt in 1937 at about one half of the farm population . According to a body of U.N experts , for many regions of india and Pakistan, and for parts of Philippines and Indonesia the surplus  cannot be less than the pre-war average for the East European region.