Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

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Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research

No 1/2003: Defining and Measuring Unmet Labour Demand

Ante Farm ()
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Ante Farm: Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Postal: SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Abstract: This paper first clarifies the distinction between vacancies as ‘job openings’ (recruitment processes), which are measured in traditional vacancy statistics, and vacancies as ‘unfilled jobs’ (unmet labour demand). It then presents a method of measuring unmet demand in enterprise surveys and illustrates this method with statistics from a new vacancy survey in Sweden.

Keywords: Job vacancies; unmet labour demand

JEL-codes: J63

12 pages, January 10, 2003

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