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Record W1601580889

International Unemployment Rates: How Comparable Are They?

2000· article· en· W1601580889 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Constance Sorrentino

Bibliographic record

VenueMonthly labor review · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicLabor market dynamics and wage inequality
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnemploymentInternational comparisonsEconomicsUnemployment rateDemographic economicsStructural unemploymentLabour economicsEconomic growth
DOInot available

Abstract

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Comparative unemployment rates are used frequently in international analyses of labor markets and are cited often in the press. In the United States, the comparative levels are considered to be an important measure of U.S. economic performance relative to that of other developed countries. Comparative unemployment rates also provide a springboard for investigating the economic, institutional, and social factors that influence cross-country differences in joblessness. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, the Bureau) has adjusted foreign unemployment rates to U.S. concepts since the early 1960s. Three other organizations—the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Labor Office (ILO), and the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat)—also adjust national data on unemployment to a common conceptual basis. The resulting “standardized” or “harmonized” rates are intended to provide a better basis for international comparison than the national figures on unemployment offer. The standardized rates, as currently published by the three organizations that make comparisons outside of Europe (BLS, OECD, and ILO), all show a similar result: a significant gap in unemployment rates between the United States, on the one hand, and Canada and Europe, on the other. In 1998, for example, when International unemployment rates: how comparable are they?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.911
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.261
Teacher spread0.224 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations49
Published2000
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