, especially in economic downturn. Cuts in unemployment spell duration have been the main factors to contribute in decreasing the … unemployment in the recent years. Subsidised employment programmes have clearly a stronger countercyclical character than Labour … unemployment, but the selectivity should not be destroyed. …

be used to predict the present and the near future unemployment rate in Finland. Predicting the present and the near … information contained in Google search queries, the report compares a simple predictive model of unemployment to a model that … future unemployment 3 months ahead. Google search queries also tend to improve the prediction accuracy around turning points …

employed. The idea is to compare the difference between the net income from market work and the unemployment benefits that have …