of our paper is to test whether these data can enhance predictions of youth unemployment in France. …

of prediction. In particular, select recent specification and estimation methods are outlined, and an empirical … illustration is provided wherein U.S. unemployment forecasts are constructed using both classical principal components based …. Preliminary evidence that mixed frequency based forecasting models yield improvements over standard fixed frequency models is …

This paper discusses identification, specification, estimation and forecasting for a general class of periodic … formulations are introduced for exact maximum likelihood estimation, component estimation and forecasting. Identification issues …, the model is applied to postwar monthly US unemployment series and we discover a significantly periodic cycle. Furthermore …

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and … exhibits a strong potential for the method used. -- Google ; internet ; keyword search ; search engine ; unemployment …