[lbo-talk] European vs. U.S. Unemployment Explained

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sun Jun 7 15:50:59 PDT 2009


He was trying to address the fourth point Jenny Brown made.

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:41:09PM -0400, Jenny Brown wrote:
>
> And fourth, the unemployment stats for Europe which were evidence for
> the whole Eurosclerosis thesis ignored the between-country variation and
> ignored the several countries which had lower unemployment than the U.S.
> for all or part of the period. See for example Stephen Nickell's work
> on this. Lumping European countries together seems likely to lose us
> more information than it gains us. And sticking new EU members like
> Bulgaria and Romania in there further muddies the water, doesn't it?
> What am I missing?
>
>
> Jenny Brown
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