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[quote]That is not the case in the United States. The coverage rate (the percentage of targeted households who respond) for the Current Population Survey (CPS) is just 88 percent.[/quote] Just wait...
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I've had my suspicions about the accuracy of the youth unemployment numbers in the US. And not in the Jack Welch "The BLS is cookin' the books!" sense, but in the cultural sense that permeates the...
View ArticleFrench universities
I did my senior year in France at the University of Grenoble, and as a graduate student I taught English at the University of Bordeaux. It's true that university education is much cheaper in France (my...
View ArticleI don't understand this article's data
"According to the OECD, the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 15-24 in France was 23.8 percent in 2012. With a labor force participation rate of 37.8 percent, this means that 9.0 percent...
View ArticleTook me a moment, too.
But I think the issue is that to be "unemployed" one has to be actually interested in working. So If 40% of a population is interested in working, and only 25% of those interested are unable to find...
View ArticleUnemployment rate means the percent of people in the labor force who are...
That is the reason for my multiplication -- to get the percent of the total population who are unemployed. Herringbone correctly raises the point that in France, as in the United States, there may be...
View ArticleBlack Economy
I lived in the South of France for years. Many, many people of all ages worked off the books, mainly to evade taxes. While there, I read one report that the French government thinks half the labor done...
View Articleinclude the undocumented please!
of the 11M or so undocumented, or even legal, we have a huge black market in labor which is completely missed. this might be easier in the U.S. for landscaping, construction, nannying, maid service,...
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