satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing with differences among the unemployed). It … higher educated groups; the unemployment among these groups is also fairly substantial. The distribution of unemployment has …

distribution free and its sample counterpart is shown to be consistent. For a wide class of CDFs the exact analytical expression of … the distribution of the sample HM index is derived, assuming the two underlying samples to be drawn from the same … distribution. The robustness of the concomitant test statistic is assessed, and four different methods are discussed for applying …