Forecasting unemployment across countries: The ins and outs

Regis Barnichon, Paula Garda, (2016), “Forecasting unemployment across countries: The ins and outs”, European Economic Review, Volume 84, Μάϊος

This paper evaluates the flow approach to unemployment forecasting proposed by Barnichon and Nekarda (2012) for a set of OECD countries characterized by very different labor markets. We find that the flow approach yields substantial improvements in forecast accuracy over professional forecasts for all countries, with especially large improvements at longer horizons (one-year ahead forecasts) for European countries. Moreover, the flow approach has the highest predictive ability during recessions and turning points, when unemployment forecasts are most valuable.

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