Diferencias entre paro registrado y paro EPA en España: Una evaluación a partir de microdatos de Galicia

Melchor Fernandez and Manuel Flores

No 1, Documentos de trabajo - IRENe from IDEGA - Instituto Universitario de Estudios e Desenvolvemento de Galicia

Abstract: The two official statistics that periodically measure the evolution of unemployment in Spain, that is, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the registered unemployment series of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, show both a similar trend of rapid employment destruction since the beginning of the recent economic crisis. But, they show striking level differences as well, which cause confusion, in particular among the public opinion. For instance, at the end of 2011 the unemployed individuals according to the LFS exceeded by 851.241 the registered unemployed at the public employment service (SPE). Possible explanations to this apparent paradox are: the methodological differences, the different groups at which both statistics are targeted, and the limitations of the administrative source to measure the evolution of unemployment in downturns, where a low probability of finding a job disincentives the job search through the SPE offices. This latter explanation, however, does not apply to all regions. The aim of the present study is to test the validity of the LFS estimates in a specific region

Keywords: Unemployment; measurement; regional analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 J64 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2012-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Revista de Economía Laboral, Vol 9 (2012), pages 46-72

Downloads: (external link)
http://otega.usc.es/docs_idega/documentos_de_traballo/irene/irene_1.pdf First version (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 500 Can't connect to otega.usc.es:80 (No such host is known. )

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:edg:irenen:0001

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Documentos de trabajo - IRENe from IDEGA - Instituto Universitario de Estudios e Desenvolvemento de Galicia Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Manuel Fernandez Grela ().