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Origins of the Unemployment Rate: The Lasting Legacy of Measurement without Theory

Author(s) -

David Card

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.101.3.552

Subject(s) - census , unemployment , administration (probate law) , work (physics) , economics , sample (material) , unemployment rate , demographic economics , labour economics , sociology , economic growth , political science , population , demography , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography

The modern definition of unemployment emerged in the late 1930s from research conducted at the Works Progress Administration and the Census Bureau. According to this definition, people who are not working but actively searching for work are counted as unemployed. This concept was first used in the Enumerative Check Census, a follow-up sample for the 1937 Census of Unemployment, and continued with the Monthly Report on the Labor Force survey, begun in December 1939 by the Works Progress Administration. A similar definition is now used to measure unemployment around the world.

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