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Measuring Unemployment and Cyclical Participation in the British Labour Market

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  • Hughes, Gordon
  • McCormick, Barry

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Unemployment rates for the United Kingdom are ordinarily calculated using National Insurance registration data. This paper uses individual data from the Labour Force Survey to (1) determine unemployment rates on an aggregate and socioeconomic group basis using search based criteria and (2) estimate the extent to which search is sensitive to labor market slack. The authors find that the probability of ILO/OECD search among the jobless is insensitive to labor market conditions, whereas the probability of employer contact search among the jobless is significantly greater in low unemployment markets. Thus, measures of "discouraged" workers hinge on the search definition adopted. Copyright 1990 by The editors of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

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  • Hughes, Gordon & McCormick, Barry, 1990. "Measuring Unemployment and Cyclical Participation in the British Labour Market," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 92(2), pages 247-269.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scandj:v:92:y:1990:i:2:p:247-69
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    1. Beresne, Martha Bernadett & Kerekes, Geza, 2009. "The Relationship between Alternative Unemployment Indicators and Agriculture in the Northern Great Plain," Studies in Agricultural Economics, Research Institute for Agricultural Economics, vol. 109, pages 1-11, April.
    2. Gábor R., István, 1998. ""Reményvesztett dolgozók" a fejlett piacgazdaságban [Hopeless workers" in the developed market economie]," Közgazdasági Szemle (Economic Review - monthly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Közgazdasági Szemle Alapítvány (Economic Review Foundation), vol. 0(4), pages 370-378.

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