Why did unemployment respond so differently to the global financial crisis across countries? Insights from Okun’s Law
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Okun’s law; Labour market institutions; Employment protection legislation; Great Recession;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
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