Bellagio Conference on the Ford Foundation Project on the Development of a New Cross-National Architecture for Labour Market Statistics

A working conference of the Ford Foundation project on the development of a new cross-national architecture for labour market statistics, held at Bellagio. The programme was organised around three team themes — labour market performance, labour market capacity, and labour market well-being — with each paper followed by a designated discussant and each theme closing with a team leader report and general discussion. Papers critically examined the unemployment rate as a performance indicator, hours of work as a measure of performance, labour market efficiency and equity, social policy and economic performance, the Dutch and Danish cases, gross labour market flows, employee hours preferences, capacity constraints, subjective and objective well-being across countries, underemployment, and entitlements. Participants included Rafael Munoz de Bustillo, Mary Stevenson, Jonathan Wadsworth, Helen Robinson, Wiemer Salverda, Peter Plougmann, John Schmitt, Kea Tijdens, Piacentini, Bolle, Martha MacDonald, Akimoto and Lettieri.