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Fig. 2

From: Unemployment in Switzerland in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: an intertemporal perspective

Fig. 2

Risk and duration of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, January 1990-June 2020. Notes: The risk of unemployment measures the probability of becoming registered unemployed in a given calendar month and equals the number of individuals entering registered unemployment in that month divided by the current size of the labor force according to official registered unemployment statistics. The duration of unemployment gives the number of months that cohorts entering registered unemployment can expect to remain in this state and corresponds to the area under the survivor curve of the corresponding month calculated using Eq (2) and the computerized database underlying the official registered unemployment statistics

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