--measured with unemployment rates--and environmental concern. Building on recent research that finds internet search terms to be … useful predictors of health epidemics and economic activity, we find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate … decreases Google searches for "global warming" and increases searches for "unemployment," and that the effect differs according …

and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …