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Unemployment as an institutional construct?
— Structural differences in non-employment between selected European countries and the United States | | Author(s) | Marcel Erlinghagen, Matthias Knuth |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 39, part 1, January 2010 |
| Pages | pp 71-94 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... doi:10.1017/S0047279409990390 |
| Keywords | Unemployment ; Labour economics ; Comparison ; Germany ; Netherlands ; France ; Denmark ; United Kingdom ; Europe ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A comparison of unemployment rates in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, the UK and the United States suggests poor performance by the German labour market. The present study endeavours to show that a more sophisticated picture of unemployment can be drawn by taking into account additional forms of non-employment (such as incapacity, retirement or labour reserve). For this purpose, data from the 'European Social Survey' (ESS) and the survey 'Citizenship, Involvement and Democracy' collected in 2004 and 2005 have been analysed. While 'unemployment' plays a dominant role in Germany, people with comparable demographic characteristics and similar health status are more likely to identify themselves as 'permanently sick or disabled' and hence are classified thus in other countries. The results of this study underline that an international comparison of labour market performance, particularly a comparison of the effectiveness of labour market and social policy reforms, should not rely only on employment and unemployment rates. Taking alternative forms of non-employment into account can enhance one's knowledge and understanding of the functional differences between the labour markets in Europe and the United States. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100713501 A |
| Classmark | WH6: WH: 48: 767: 76H: 765: 76K: 8: 74: 7T |
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