Gregg, Paul, Scutella, Rosanna and Wadsworth, Jonathan (2010) Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia. Journal of Population Economics, 23 (1). pp. 139-167. ISSN 1432-1475
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Individual- and household-based jobless rates can offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying and decomposing the extent of any disparity (polarisation) between individual- and household-based measures and apply this to data from five countries over 25 years. Comparing actual household workless rates with counterfactuals based on a random distribution of employment, we find evidence of growing disparities between individual- and household-based non-employment measures in all five countries. The extent of this polarisation varies widely, but for each country, most of the discrepancies stem from within-household factors than from changing household composition.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/0933-1433/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Springer |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2011 13:17 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30307 |
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