OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a range of common patterns. Using a panel of 21 OECD countries 1960-2002, we estimate the common factor that drives unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has...

Esta investigación construye un índice sobre el bienestar de los hogares, para seleccionar hogares en situación de pobreza, en los distintos subsidios que otorga el Estado en sus programas sociales. El índice estratifica entre los hogares con bajo nivel de bienestar según grado de...

OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a range of common patterns. Using a panel of 21 OECD countries 1960-2002, we estimate the common factor that drives unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has...