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Institut national de la statistique et des études …; … - Paris : Institut national de la statistique et des … - Édition 2016-

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Measuring employment and unemployment : should statistical criteria for measuring employment and unemployment be re-examined?

Brandolini, Andrea; Viviano, Eliana - 2018

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

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European vs. American hours worked : assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins

Langot, François (contributor); … - 2008

Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed differences. Our counterfactual exercises show that the two dimensions of the extensive margin,...

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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates

Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates … substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current …. During the period of 1996 to 2009, the corrected monthly unemployment rates are 1 to 4.6 percentage points (25% to 45 …