Little is known so far about how the corona crisis has changed search processes in the labour market. We provide insights on labour market competition, reallocation of applications and potential sullying effects by analysing data from the LinkedIn professional network for Germany. We find that...

Near term forecasts, also called nowcasts, are most challenging but also most important when the economy experiences an abrupt change. In this paper, we explore the performance of models with different information sets and data structures in order to best nowcast US initial unemployment claims...

We study the adoption of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. We assemble a novel high-frequency database of job postings advertising work from home (telework) covering 20 countries and 55 occupation categories, using data from the online job site Indeed. Exploiting changes in...