We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are … the cross-country cyclical differences in the aggregate Okun's coefficient. …

This paper revisits the relationship between economic growth and employment creation as expressed in Okun’s law by … developing and emerging countries, the Okun’s coefficient is lower than in developed countries. Moreover, there are important … informality (and SMEs), the analysis in this paper calls for greater caution in using Okun’s co­efficients to inform policy …

In this paper, we analyze, by means of the difference version of Okun's law, the relationship between tourism sector …

gender-specific unemployment, this relationship is not so well examined. We apply the gap version of Okun’s law, aiming to … studies on age- and gender-specific Okun’s coefficients, which assume that the effect of output on unemployment is homogenous …

-examination of Okun's law shows that informality dampens changes in unemployment accompanying output fluctuations. Moreover, we …

Okun's law is one of the most widely-known stylized facts in the macroeconomic literature and policy. In this paper we … study several aspects of Okun’s law in Macedonia between 2004 and 2016. Aggregate indicators show a link between output and …