In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators … ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one …

Measures of unemployment tally people without a job who are looking for one. For measurement purposes, the critical … question is what constitutes looking. This article summarizes how unemployment is measured in the United States and Europe, and … measures beyond unemployment may be useful in judging the state of the labor market …