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Gonul, Fusun Feride |
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New Evidence on Whether Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force are Distinct States Discussion Paper No. 90-6. Economics Research Center-NORC, 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Opinion Research Center - NORC Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Research Methodology; Unemployment This paper focuses on the question of whether or not people who are out of the labor force (OLF) should be included in unemployment measures. If people who are OLF can obtain jobs as often as the people who are unemployed, then there is no real distinction between the two states of nonemployment. There have been two studies dealing with this issue in an empirical framework: Clark and Summers (1982) conclude that for teenagers, unemployment and OLF are not distinct states while Flinn and Heckman (1982) find the opposite for white male high school graduates. New evidence for high school graduates is presented by gender, and it is found that while for young women the two states are distinct, for young men they are not. The methodology adopted in this paper enables one to use the incomplete transition data in the NLSY on unemployment and OLF, and to obtain estimates of the full transaction matrix between three labor force states. |
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Gonul, Fusun Feride. "New Evidence on Whether Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force are Distinct States." Discussion Paper No. 90-6. Economics Research Center-NORC, 1989. |