constant unemployment rate, through the notion of Harrod's natural growth rate and Okun's Law. Kalman filter estimation allows … employment. First, estimates of Okun's Law indicate that the response of Philippine unemployment and visible underemployment to …

Our paper revisits Okun's relationship between observed unemployment rates and output gaps. We include in the … unemployment rate) over time. The Okun coefficient is not only different for young, prime-age and older workers, it decreases with … reducing the overall unemployment rate, it will also have the distributional effect of lowering youth unemployment. …