TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gorjón, Lucía
AU  - Rica, Sara de la
AU  - Villar, Antonio
        TI  - The Social Cost of Unemployment: The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach
        PY  - 2018/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11850
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp11850
        AB  - This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social cost of unemployment is regarded as a welfare loss, which is measured by a utilitarian social welfare function whose arguments are the individual disutilities of unemployed workers. Each individual disutility is modelled as a function of income loss, unemployment duration and hysteresis. The resulting formula is simple and easy to understand and implement. We apply this assessment protocol to the Spanish labour market, using the official register of unemployed workers compiled by the Public Employment Service.
        KW  - severity and hysteresis of unemployment
KW  - incidence
KW  - unemployment benefits
KW  - social cost of unemployment
KW  - Spanish labour market
KW  - regional differences
        ER  -