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Youth Unemployment in the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Is Okun’s Law Applicable?

Comparative Economic Research
This article investigates the empirical validity of Okun’s law regarding youth unemployment in 11 Central and Eastern European countries between 2000 and 2023.
Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski, Agnieszka Krzętowska   +1 more
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Decomposing the misery index: A dynamic approach

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2014
The misery index (the unweighted sum of unemployment and inflation rates) was probably the first attempt to develop a single statistic to measure the level of a population’s economic malaise. In this letter, we develop a dynamic approach to decompose the
Ivan K. Cohen, Fabrizio Ferretti, Bryan McIntosh   +2 more
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Confronting Colonial Control: Afrofuturist Literacy Stances Versus Book Bans in the Battle for Spacetime

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
ABSTRACT While much of the research on censorship and book banning rightly emphasizes efforts to silence and erase people who do not identify as white cis‐heteronormative men, the role of colonialism in the construction and contextualization of censorship is underexplored.
S. R. Toliver
wiley   +1 more source

The Lost Decade in the Japanese Labor Market : Labor’s share and Okun’s Law [PDF]

The purpose of this study is to reexamine two empirical regularities in the Japanese labor market : the constant labor share and Okun's law. The former law relates to the price of labor in the labor market while the latter is a quantity law; they ...
Shigeru Wakita
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Activist stabilization policy and inflation : the Taylor rule in the 1970s [PDF]

, 2002
A number of recent studies have suggested that activist stabilization policy rules responding to inflation and the output gap can attain simultaneously a low and stable rate of inflation as well as a high degree of economic stability.
Orphanides, Athanasios
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The US Individualism–Collectivism and Labor Investment Efficiency

Corporate Governance: An International Review, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 873-899, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue We examine whether the variation in the ndividualism–collectivism dimension within the US affects labor investment efficiency. Research Findings/Insights Using the collectivism index developed by existing literature, we find that firms headquartered in collectivist states are more likely to deviate from the optimal ...
Rajib Chowdhury, Douglas Cumming, Anjee Gorkhali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relevance of Okun’s Law in Montenegro [PDF]

Montenegrin Journal of Economics, 2021
Vesna Karadzic
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Time Variation in Okun's Law: A Canada and U.S. Comparison [PDF]

This article investigates the stability of Okun's law for Canada and the United States using a time varying parameter approach. Time variation is modeled as driftless random walks and is estimated using the median unbiased estimator approach developed by
Kimberly Beaton
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Learning‐by‐Doing when Times Are Tough: Evidence from the Great Recession

Economic Record, Volume 101, Issue 333, Page 169-185, June 2025.
We analyse potential macroeconomic determinants of worker learning curves by matching exogenous changes in macroeconomic conditions during the Great Recession to high‐frequency data on worker productivity from supermarkets. We find evidence of a statistically significant learning curve among new cashiers.
Angela Zha, Rebecca L. C. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

A Cross-Country Study on Okun's Law [PDF]

Okun's Law postulates an inverse relationship between movements of the unemployment rate and the real gross domestic product (GDP). In this article we investigate Okun's law for 15 OECD countries and check for its the structural stability.
Alfred Stiassny, Leopold Soegner
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