We provide evidence on the evolution of worker reallocation in Italy and Spain during the pandemic. In both countries … significant differences in the reallocation probability with respect to the pre-pandemic average in Spain. …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

predict the US monthly unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that … augmented with the GI outperform the traditional ones in predicting the unemployment rate for different out-of-sample intervals … confirmed when employing different keywords. Based on our results for the unemployment rate, we believe that there will be an …

Statistical models can help public employment services to identify factors associated with long-term unemployment and …