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dc.contributor.authorDeutsch, Josephen
dc.contributor.authorFlückiger, Yvesen
dc.contributor.authorSilber, Jacquesen
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-14T11:08:46Z-
dc.date.available2010-05-14T11:08:46Z-
dc.date.issued2007-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/31561-
dc.description.abstractThis 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 componentsthe traditional unemployment rate, the average unemployment duration, and the inequality in the unemployment durationsto 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.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLevy Economics Institute of Bard College |cAnnandale-on-Hudson, NYen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper |x509en
dc.subject.jelI32en
dc.subject.jelJ64en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordFGT Poverty Indexen
dc.subject.keywordInequalityen
dc.subject.keywordSen Pverty Indexen
dc.subject.keywordShapley Decompositionen
dc.subject.keywordSwitzerlanden
dc.subject.keywordUnemployment Durationen
dc.subject.keywordWatts Poverty Indexen
dc.subject.stwArbeitslosigkeiten
dc.subject.stwMessungen
dc.subject.stwTeilstaaten
dc.subject.stwSchweizen
dc.titleOn various ways of measuring unemployment, with applications to Switzerland-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn571698670en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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