our paper is to test if these data can enhance predictions for youth unemployment in France. As we have on the one hand … weekly series on web search queries and on the other hand monthly series on unemployment for the 15 to 24-year-olds, we use …. We find that including Google data improves unemployment predictions relatively to a competing model without search data …

Statistics Netherlands uses a state space model to estimate the Dutch unemployment by using monthly series about the … variable, which makes the state space model become nonlinear and therefore its estimation by Kalman filtering and maximum … more realistic real-time unemployment estimates. …

-related searches. We show that Google searches enhance nowcasting models of unemployment rates for the Czech Republic and Hungary … successfully utilized for macroeconomic predictions. Specifically, we study unemployment rates and their interconnection with job …

Trends keywords from other dimensions than job search leads to the improved forecasting of errors; however, the relationship …