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Original Articles

Age effects in Okun’s law with different indicators of unemployment

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Pages 580-583 | Published online: 19 Nov 2015
 

ABSTRACT

We reassess the results from the literature on the relationship between the youth unemployment rate and GDP growth (Okun’s law), based on the concern that the unemployment rate is not an ideal indicator for teenagers and young adults. Using the unemployment ratio instead, we find that youth unemployment (15–24 years old) is not significantly more responsive to economic growth than prime-age (25–64) unemployment. However, compared to prime-age unemployment, teenagers’ unemployment (15–19) is relatively unresponsive, whereas young adult’s (20–24) unemployment is more strongly correlated with economic growth. These results are quite different than those obtained with the unemployment rate as the dependent variable.

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Notes

1 Banerji et al. (Citation2014) use data from 1983 when available. However, for most countries, data is available since 2002.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion [613256].

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