This paper empirically examines entire distributions of unemployment spells according to a novel duration-share approach based on decile shares and Lorenz curves of unemployment. The approach is applied to Canadian micro-data. The approach reveals distinctive patterns of unemployment spell distributions by sex, age, education, and region. A considerable concentration of unemployment is in long duration spells. Significant cyclical effects on the distribution of unemployment spells associated with the recession of 1982.
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Paper provided by Queen's University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
629.