Deltidsarbetslöshet och arbetslöshetsförsäkring i Sverige (Part-time unemployment and unemployment insurance in Sweden)

Susanne Ek and Bertil Holmlund ()

No 2010:15, Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies from Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a survey week but are unable to work as many hours as they wish. An ILO-resolution from 1998 defines underemployment as comprising persons in employment who (i) are willing to work additional hours, (ii) are available to work additional hours, and (iii) worked less than a threshold relating to working time. Underemployment accounts for a non-negligible fraction of the labor force in most countries, although it is typically somewhat lower in magnitude than the conventional measure of unemployment. By the end of 2009, part-time unemployment stood at almost 5 percent of the labor force in the OECD area.

Keywords: Unemployment; underemployment; part-time work; unemployment insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 78 pages
Date: 2010-09-29
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.ucls.nek.uu.se/digitalAssets/136/136478_201015_2.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.ucls.nek.uu.se/digitalAssets/136/136478_201015_2.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.ucls.nek.uu.se/digitalAssets/136/136478_201015_2.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.uu.se/institution/nationalekonomiska/forskning/forskningscentrum/uppsala-center-for-labor-studies/digitalAssets/136/136478_201015_2.pdf)

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:hhs:uulswp:2010_015

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series, Center for Labor Studies from Uppsala University, Department of Economics Department of Economics, Uppsala University, P. O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Katarina Grönvall ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).