Yves Flückiger

On Various ways of Measuring Unemployment, with Applications to Switzerland (2007)

Deutsch, Joseph, Flückiger, Yves, Silber, Jacques

This paper discusses first various ways of measuring unemployment and, borrowing ideas from the poverty measurement literature, proposes four more general unemployment indices which are parallel to...

Income Inequality Decomposition by Income Source and the Breakdown of Inequality Differences Between Two Population Subgroups

Yves Flückiger, Jacques Silber

This study analyses first the impact of various income sources on overall income inequality in Switzerland in 1980, on the basis of the Income and Wealth Survey which was conducted during that year....