L'approche du chômage par les variantes dans les comparaisons internationales: intérêts et limites ?

Maurice Comte ()
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Maurice Comte: LEFI - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Firme et des Institutions - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2

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Abstract: Summary - The approach of Unemployment by Variants in International Comparisons : Interest and Limits? The BIT, through its work of standardization, has limited the technical and conceptual différences existing between the national measures of unemployment. The use of similar criterions is not sufficient to allow valid international comparisons: it is also necessary that the characteristics of labor markets are similar. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tries to give some light on the real existing diversity with the help of a group of indicators. A methodological analysis shows that this system cannot pretend to be a reference, because of numerous inconsistencies: the mixture of categorical and alternative indicators is not compatible with a hierarchy; the use of a hour measure is not compatible with the count of persons; finally, there is a confusion between unemployment and its consequences. However the problems under review suggest to try a reconstruction, which seems difficult.

Keywords: unemployment; measure; international comparisons; chômage; mesure; comparaisons internationales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-10-01
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Published in Revue d'économie politique, 1998, 108 (5), pp.645-669

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