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Where do you live? Most countries use labour force surveys, it's orthogonal to registration to unemployment agencies.
by dfdydx 24d ago
Where do you live? Most countries use labour force surveys, it's orthogonal to registration to unemployment agencies.
- DrProtic 24d agoI looked it up and I have to correct myself. So EU/Eurostat has surveys, Serbia does too (I’m from Serbia). However most countries have also national way of determining the rate that works how I described, and they may differ quite a lot from Eurostat. I guess EU introduced surveys with Eurostat so countries don’t juke the stats. For example - Denmark computes net unemployment straight from benefit and PES registers — administrative coverage is complete enough to do it without asking anyone. It still runs an LFS for the ILO figure. - Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Spain publish monthly registered counts that dominate domestic debate, exactly the way NSZ figures circulate in Serbia. Each uses its own national definition, so none is comparable across borders. - Finland keeps a register series noticeably above its LFS count, similar in shape to the NSZ/ARS gap.
- dfdydx 24d agoThe ILO definition is comparable across countries