migration and trade. This paper aims to check the effect of such restrictions on the unemployment of unskilled labor in the … source country. In competitive general equilibrium framework with three goods and four factors restriction on migration … raises unemployment for given factor intensity. The results remain same even in a slightly different structure of the economy …

to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity … estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the topic "unemployment", we show that out-of-sample forecasts made ahead … the demand for unemployment insurance. In addition, we provide a robust assessment of the uncertainty surrounding these …

literature investigating the economic consequences of covid-19 by showing how unemployment-related online searches across the EU … queries related to unemployment in 27 countries. We nowcast the monthly unemployment rate in the EU Member States to assess … five weeks. We suggest that the effect is most likely due to an increase in unemployment expectations. …

Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold … greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since March. Causes include lower migration rates, less …