On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland
Title | On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Deutsch |
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Pages | 30 |
Release | 2007 |
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On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland
Title | On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Deutsch |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
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This paper begins with an examination of various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty measurement literature, proposes four new general unemployment indices. The first of these is parallel to the Sen poverty index; the second, to the Sen index's generalization by Shorrocks; the third, to the FGT poverty index; and the fourth, to the Watts poverty index. The authors then present an empirical illustration based on Swiss data compiled at the state, or canton, level, using the so-called Shapley decomposition to determine the contribution of three components - the traditional unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durations - to the differences between the values of the four proposed indices, both within a given canton and within Switzerland as a whole. The paper concludes with a discussion of the assumptions made about the maximum unemployment duration for the purposes of the study, and their impact on the results obtained.
On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Application to Switzerland
Title | On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Application to Switzerland PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Deutsch |
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Pages | 30 |
Release | 2007 |
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Measuring Different Types of Unemployment in Switzerland
Title | Measuring Different Types of Unemployment in Switzerland PDF eBook |
Author | Yves Flückiger |
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Pages | 19 |
Release | 1986 |
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On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployemet, with Applications to Switzerland
Title | On Various Ways of Measuring Unemployemet, with Applications to Switzerland PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Deutsch |
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Pages | 29 |
Release | 2007 |
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Inequality and Poverty
Title | Inequality and Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Bishop |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2008-10-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1848551347 |
Contains a selection of thirteen papers from the Second Biannual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Berlin, July, 2007. This work covers topics including welfare analysis with ordinal data, unit consistency and multidimensional inequality indices and unit consistency and intermediate inequality indices.
Biennial Report ...
Title | Biennial Report ... PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome Levy Economics Institute |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Economics |
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