collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences … ; unemployment ; macroeconomic policy ; labour market policy …

unemployment. Using a matching function approach, the author finds that such a shock implies an unemployment rate of no more than 7 ….1 percent, much below the actual unemployment rate during the past two years. Hence, the recent patterns in unemployment and …

In this paper we study international linkages when forecasting unemployment rates in a sample of 24 OECD economies. We … propose a Global Unemployment Factor (GUF) and test its predictive ability considering in-sample and out-of-sample exercises … information to predict domestic unemployment rates, at least for these last seven countries …