(JUVOS) for the analysis of unemployment duration. Variants of the JUVOS are used by the labour administration and the … competing implementations of unemployment duration in the data yield partly unstable empirical result pattern even in presence … research community as an important source for the analysis of unemployment. While previous work has mentioned the relevant data …

The underlying data from which the U.S. unemployment rate, labor-force participation rate, and duration of unemployment … of the average duration of unemployment overstates by 50% the true duration of uninterrupted spells of unemployment and … reconciliation. We find that the usual statistics understate the unemployment rate and the labor-force participation rate by about …

This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of … assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical … that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are …