ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF THE AVERAGE DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT
研究了四种失业平均持续时间的替代度量方法，揭示了平均未完成失业持续时间的偏差，并展示了平均完成失业持续时间在非参数方法下的稳健性，使用加拿大数据但结果具有更广泛的应用价值。
Four alternative measures of the average duration of unemployment are examined with the intention of illustrating: (1) the biases inherent in the average incomplete duration of unemployment, a statistic that is often the only one reported by many statistical agencies; and (2) the robustness of the average complete duration of unemployment to a host of assumptions underlying its derivation by non‐parametric methods. Canadian data are employed, but the results offer a guide to the construction of the average complete duration of unemployment that may have broader applications.