Arbeitspapier

Multiple Causation and the Measurement of Unemployment

The establishment of appropriate policy measures for fighting unemployment has always been difficult since causes of unemployment are hard to identify. This paper analyses an approach used mainly in the 1960s and 1970s in economics, in which classification is used as a way to deal with such a complex, multiple causal phenomenon like unemployment. The method is based on decomposing unemployment into classes of unemployment and the measurement of each of these classes by reference to stable, measurable macroeconomic relationships like the Phillips curve and the Beveridge curve. In this way economists were able to ‘diagnose’ unemployment and make policy recommendations for fighting unemployment without making explicit reference to the underlying singular causes of unemployment.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 04-108/1

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Classification of unemployment
Causality
Theories of unemployment
Phillips curve
Beveridge curve
Economic policy measures
Theorie der Arbeitslosigkeit
Arbeitslosigkeit
Messung
Phillips-Kurve
Beveridge-Kurve
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rodenburg, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rodenburg, Peter
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2004

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