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Hee-young Shin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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toward a common framework for Labor Force Statistics in east asia a survey on the practice and recommendations
2018Co-Authors: Hee-young ShinAbstract:The paper aims to survey the conventional Labor Force statistical concepts and practices used by selected East Asian governments and to propose a series of alternative frameworks for improved Labor Force Statistics. These frameworks include the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’ multiple underemployment rate series and the International Labor Office (ILO)’s Labor underutilization framework. After carefully examining various problems inherent in conventional Labor Force Statistics in East Asia, the paper recommends that East Asian governments should adopt a common alternative framework for Labor Force Statistics in order to enhance regional economic cooperation and to help design and implement a region-wide coordinated Labor market policy in times of financial and economic instability and crisis.
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Toward a Common Framework for Labor Force Statistics in East Asia – A Survey on the Practice and Recommendations
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Co-Authors: Hee-young ShinAbstract:The paper aims to survey the conventional Labor Force statistical concepts and practices used by selected East Asian governments and to propose a series of alternative frameworks for improved Labor Force Statistics. These frameworks include the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’ multiple underemployment rate series and the International Labor Office (ILO)’s Labor underutilization framework. After carefully examining various problems inherent in conventional Labor Force Statistics in East Asia, the paper recommends that East Asian governments should adopt a common alternative framework for Labor Force Statistics in order to enhance regional economic cooperation and to help design and implement a region-wide coordinated Labor market policy in times of financial and economic instability and crisis.
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Marx-Keynes on involuntary unemployment and alternative Labor market indicators
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015Co-Authors: Hee-young ShinAbstract:The paper revisits Marx and Keynes’s analysis of involuntary unemployment and discusses how to account for this phenomenon by developing a series of alternative Labor market indicators. Both Marx and Keynes treated (un-)employment as a function of the long-run consequence of capital accumulation and the presence of a certain type of unemployment as an inevitable outcome of the deficient decentralized capitalist market economy. The goal of this paper is to survey the latest developments in Labor Force Statistics and indicators to see whether a series of alternative indicators of Labor markets fare well with Marx and Keynes’s involuntary unemployment. The survey in this paper shows that the Labor (under-)utilization framework that the International Labor Office (ILO) has proposed is one of the broadest measures of Labor market performance, and that it allows us to examine the relative size and different type of the presence of the reserve army of Labor and involuntary unemployment.
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Alternative Measures of Asian Labor Markets after the Asian Financial Crisis
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012Co-Authors: Hee-young ShinAbstract:As part of research on the causes and consequences of the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s, this paper aims to examine what happened to Asian Labor markets in the aftermath of the financial crisis. For this purpose, the paper begins by surveying the conventional practice of the standard Labor Force Statistics in selected Asian countries. After examining various problems associated with this conventional measure, the author introduces a series of alternative frameworks such as the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’ multiple unemployment rates series and the International Labor Office (ILO)’s Labor Underutilization Frameworks, both of which are designed to gauge both quantity and quality aspects of underemployment of Labor. The paper then attempts to use these alternative frameworks in analyzing the Asian Labor markets in order to show how the Asian Labor markets were drastically changed under the dire environments of ongoing structural adjustment process after the financial crisis. The analysis in this paper reveals that the ‘economic recovery’ in Asia (particularly in Korea), if any, was not accompanied by comparable improvements in the quality and quantity of employment, and that the number of discouraged and marginally attached workers, together with involuntarily part-time workers have been continuously rising. The paper also shows that the vast majority of employed workers are under time-, income- and/or skill-related inadequate employment situations and this Labor underutilization persists even after the financial crisis was over.
David Dooley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Unemployment, Underemployment, and Mental Health: Conceptualizing Employment Status as a Continuum
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2003Co-Authors: David DooleyAbstract:The economy is one of the most important social environments that affect well-being, and community psychologists have long studied the social costs of one key economic stressor—job loss. But economically inadequate employment has received much less research attention than unemployment in regard to mental health effects. This paper contrasts these two literatures and considers factors that might account for their differential growth including actual rates of unemployment and underemployment. Recent panel studies offer no support for another possible basis for this differential growth—the assumption that inadequate employment is more like adequate employment than unemployment. Implications of a paradigm shift from a dichotomous perspective (employment vs. unemployment) to a continuum perspective with variations of both unemployment and employment are discussed for research and prevention. Another implication is the need to expand standard Labor Force Statistics to reflect better the degree of underemployment.
William R. Lynn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cigarette Smoking Among U.S. Adults by State and Region: Estimates From the Current Population Survey
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1996Co-Authors: Donald R. Shopland, Anne M. Hartman, James T. Gibson, Michael D. Mueller, Larry Kessler, William R. LynnAbstract:Background Cigarette smoking is responsible for at least one third of all cancer deaths annually in the United States. Few sources exist in the peer-reviewed literature documenting state and regional differences in smoking behavior, despite the fact that cancer prevention and control efforts are increasingly being implemented below the national level. Purpose Our goals were to determine smoking prevalence rates among men and women, by region, and for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia from census survey data collected in 1992 and 1993 and to compare these rates with rates determined in 1985. Methods Every month, the U.S. Bureau of the Census collects Labor Force Statistics on more than 100000 individuals on its Current Population Survey (CPS). For the September 1992, January 1993, and May 1993 CPS, the National Cancer Institute sponsored a 40-item Tobacco Use Supplement. The definition of a current smoker changed slightly between 1985 and 1992-1993. For the 1985 CPS, individuals were considered current smokers if they had smoked 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and were smoking at the time of interview; for the 1992-1993 CPS, current smokers included anyone who had smoked 100 cigarettes and was currently smoking every day or just on some days. We calculated current smoking rates (every day and some days combined) based on more than a quarter million adults (n = 266988) interviewed in 1992-1993. Results Substantial geographic variation exists in rates of current cigarette use among adults within the United States. In general, adults in the southern United States have higher rates of smoking and adults in the western states have lower rates of smoking and adults in the rest of the country, although differences in smoking behavior between men and women and among various racial and ethnic populations strongly influence these patterns. Only two states, Kentucky and West Virginia, exhibited adult smoking rates (men and women combined) of 30% or higher in 1992-1993; in contrast, in 1985, such rates were reported from 20 states. The only states in which the prevalence was below 20% in 1992-1993 were Utah (17.1%) and California (19.5%). Rates approaching 20% were reported from New Jersey (20.7%), Massachusetts (21.5%), and Nebraska, New York, and Hawaii (22.0% each) in 1992-1993. Rhode Island experienced the greatest relative decline in smoking prevalence from 1985 to 1992-1993, with a calculated relative change of -30.7% (based on a change in rate from 33.5% to 23.2%), followed by Delaware (-25.9%) the District of Columbia and New Jersey (-23.9% each), Connecticut (-23.2%), California (-22.9%), Alaska (-22.8%), Georgia (-22.6%), Massachusetts (-22.1%), and New York (-22.0%). Conclusions Smoking rates are not uniform in the United States but vary considerably from state to state, even within the same region of the country. The CPS is the only mechanism currently capable of simultaneously monitoring smoking trends nationally, regionally, and on a state-by-state basis.
Xiaotong Niu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014Co-Authors: Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas, Xiaotong NiuAbstract:This paper documents that rotation group bias -- the tendency for Labor Force Statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in Labor Force surveys -- in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups has grown sharply relative to the unemployment rate for later rotation groups; both should be nationally representative samples. The rise in rotation group bias is driven by a growing tendency for respondents to report job search in earlier rotations relative to later rotations. We investigate explanations for the change in bias. We find that rotation group bias increased discretely after the 1994 CPS redesign and that rising nonresponse is likely a significant contributor. Survey nonresponse increased after the redesign, and subsequently trended upward, mirroring the time pattern of rotation group bias. Consistent with this explanation, there is only a small increase in rotation group bias for households that responded in all eight interviews. An analysis of rotation group bias in Canada and the U.K. reveal no rotation group bias in Canada and a modest and declining bias in the U.K. There is not a "Heisenberg Principle" of rotation group bias, whereby the bias is an inherent feature of repeated interviewing. We explore alternative weightings of the unemployment rate by rotation group and find that, despite the rise in rotation group bias, the official unemployment does no worse than these other measures in predicting alternative measures of economic slack or fitting key macroeconomic relationships.
Firestone Library - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ABSTRACT The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up? *
2014Co-Authors: Firestone LibraryAbstract:This paper documents that rotation group bias – the tendency for Labor Force Statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in Labor Force surveys – in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups has grown sharply relative to the unemployment rate for later rotation groups; both should be nationally representative samples. The rise in rotation group bias is driven by a growing tendency for respondents to report job search in earlier rotations relative to later rotations. We investigate explanations for the change in bias. We find that rotation group bias increased discretely after the 1994 CPS redesign and that rising nonresponse is likely a significant contributor. Survey nonresponse increased after the redesign, and subsequently trended upward, mirroring the time pattern of rotation group bias. Consistent with this explanation, there is only a small increase in rotation group bias for households that responded in all eight interviews. An analysis of rotation group bias in Canada and the U.K. reveal no rotation group bias in Canada and a modest and declining bias in the U.K. There is not a “Heisenberg Principle” of rotation group bias, whereby the bias is an inherent feature of repeated interviewing. We explore alternative weightings of the unemployment rate by rotation group and find that, despite the rise in rotation group bias, the official unemployment does no worse than these other measures in predicting alternative measures of economic slack or fitting key macroeconomic relationships.
