We investigate factors affecting the job search channels (newspapers, agency, informal network, direct contact, internet) of unemployed individuals in Italy using a multivariate probit model. We separately analyse unemployed individuals who lost their job or who are entering the labour market...

We investigate Okun's law in some European countries over 1985-2020 period, with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. We compare estimates using traditional OLS and an M-robust estimator within a rolling regression framework. Firstly, we found that the M-estimator outperforms the OLS estimator in...