This study investigates Okun's law in OECD countries by examining estimates for male and
female age cohorts for the period 1998–2012. We find that the estimated Okun coefficients …

This research establishes a significant relationship between the share of self-employment in
total employment and the Okun's coefficient, which had been insufficiently addressed in the …

The inverse relationship between unemployment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
commonly known as Okun's law, has been traditionally analysed in the economic literature …

The US recession of 2007–2009 saw unemployment rates for men rise by significantly more
than those for women, resulting in the downturn's characterization as a 'mancession'. This …

The focus of this paper is on the different effects of the Great Recession on the decision of
women and men to participate or not in the labour market. The literature on the effects of …

While there has been considerable debate about extending the length of working life,
relatively little is known about this issue. We use data from the Spanish Continuous Working …

Spain and Canada were pursuing divergent political agendas before the 2007–09 global
economic crisis and subsequent recession: Canada's conservative government, elected in …

This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour
supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to check the existence of the added worker effect
(AWE) in Italy during the Great Recession. Design/methodology/approach The authors used …

This article investigates the determinants of internal mobility of both foreigners and natives
across Spanish provinces over the decade 2004‐14. Building on an extended gravity model …