This paper provides new estimates of Okun’s unemployment-output relationship in euro area countries between 1979 and … characterise the literature and that the responsiveness of output to unemployment is driven by idiosyncratic factors in both euro …

unemployment that is in line with this empirical regularity and the findings for the other emerging markets and regional peers. We … European debt crisis. When investigating whether various expenditure components of GDP may cause different unemployment … improve forecasting of unemployment. …

Using U.S. real-time data, we show that changes in the unemployment rate unexplained by Okun's Law have significant … a change in potential GDP, the equilibrium unemployment rate, or the use of labor's intensive margin. …

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the … coefficients are proportional to the aggregate in all four countries. We also show that the standard deviation of unemployment is …

In this paper, we analyse Okun's law - a relation between the change in the unemployment rate and GDP growth - using … fruitful. In terms of dynamic effects, a shock to GDP growth has robustly negative effects on the change in the unemployment …

The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment …