Measuring the Duration of Unemployment

Charles Beach and Stephan Kaliski

Working Paper from Economics Department, Queen's University

Abstract: This paper examines the conceptual issues involved in measuring duration of completed spells of unemployment from Gross Flows. We find that such measures can avoid the "interruption" bias of Labour Force stock data, but that they cannot correct the oversampling of long spells. We also conclude that, contrary to what is often asserted, one cannot get rid of assumptions of stationarity simply by changing from assuming a constant escape route to estimating a "hazard function" relating escape probability to the duration of unemployment.

Pages: 18
Date: 1982
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