TY - JOUR
T1 - Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level. Theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
AU - Gregg, Paul
AU - Scutella, Rosanna
AU - Wadsworth, Jonathan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-008-0215-6
U2 - 10.1007/s00148-008-0215-6
DO - 10.1007/s00148-008-0215-6
M3 - Article
VL - 23
SP - 139
EP - 167
JO - Journal of Population Economics
JF - Journal of Population Economics
SN - 0933-1433
IS - 1
ER -