The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-315

  Kingdon, Geeta ^a   Knight, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discouraged worker; Happiness; Job search; South Africa; Unemployment measure; Wage curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645549827     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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