Bazen, Stephen; Joutard, Xavier; Niang, Mouhamadou - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 4, pp. 517-534
This paper examines how unemployment can be measured in a normative fashion - taking into account the mean and inequality of spell lengths - and how the extent of unemployment can be estimated from cross section data of the type found in labour force surveys. The issue is not straightforward...