(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 …

not an issue that the usual unemployment rate deals with, though. Being unemployed one may not be able to gain access to … with these issues and improve on the usual unemployment measure. In this paper I develop a new measure of unemployment … unemployment across both households and individuals. With this class of measures characterized, I then show some empirical …

Measures of unemployment and poverty have tended to focus solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty … of becoming unemployed or falling into poverty, our standard measures of unemployment and poverty do not accurately …' because, with unemployment remaining constant, the presence of vulnerable people implies that there must also exist currently …

There has long been a consensus that generous unemployment benefits probably raise unemployment rates. The link has … been difficult to demonstrate, however, since existing indicators on the generosity of unemployment benefits overlook key … aspects of the system that may influence worker response. The author develops a new indicator for unemployment benefits in 21 …

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 …