Measuring Unemployment: Family Considerations
探讨以个人而非家庭为分析单位衡量失业的缺陷，指出失业统计忽视家庭整体经济状况，并讨论改进指标的政策含义。
Unemployment statistics are based on aggregates of individuals, not families, yet the family as a unit suffers from unemployment-especially of the major wage earner. This paper explores the ramifications of using the individual rather than the family as the unit of analysis. Two issues in particular are discussed: the tendency to equate employment/unemployment with family economic well-being and the narrow operationalization of the term "unemployed." Policy implications in the form of additional indicators are discussed.