International Comparisons.

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  • Source:
    Monthly Labor Review. Jan2005, Vol. 128 Issue 1, p55-57. 3p.
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    • Abstract:
      This section presents an overview of a statistical series released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) comparing the labor market data from other countries as of January 2005. Table 52 and 53 of the BLS statistical series present comparative measures of the labor force, employment, and unemployment approximating U.S. concepts for the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, and six European countries. The labor force statistics published by other industrial countries are not, in most cases, comparable to U.S. concepts. Therefore, the Bureau adjusts the figures for selected countries, for all known major definitional differences, to the extent that data to prepare adjustments are available. Although precise comparability may not be achieved, these adjusted figures provide a better basis for international comparisons than the figures regularly published by each country. The foreign country data are adjusted as closely as possible to U.S. concepts, with the exception of lower age limits and the treatment of layoffs. These adjustments include, but are not limited to: including older persons in the labor force by imposing no upper age limit, adding unemployed students to the unemployed, excluding the military and family workers working fewer than 15 hours from the employed, and excluding persons engaged in passive job search from the unemployed.