2013
DOI: 10.1007/s11066-013-9082-8
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Nowcasting unemployment rate and new car sales in south-western Europe with Google Trends

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“…This would also solve the drawback that even month-end data, which correspond to the reporting frequency, are not immediately available on the first day of the following month, but only with a lag. Of course we do not have this exact data, but we can try to approximate how many people prepare facing unemployment with the help of Google search volume data (see Choi and Varian, 2012;Barreira et al, 2013).…”
Section: Google Search Volumementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This would also solve the drawback that even month-end data, which correspond to the reporting frequency, are not immediately available on the first day of the following month, but only with a lag. Of course we do not have this exact data, but we can try to approximate how many people prepare facing unemployment with the help of Google search volume data (see Choi and Varian, 2012;Barreira et al, 2013).…”
Section: Google Search Volumementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In order to nowcast unemployment rates in France, Germany, Italy and Portugal, Barreira et al (2013) draw on Google search query data. Google data have recently gained particular attention as they allow to forecast a broad range of (economic) data.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Labor market in the UK lacked flexibility even in the period before the Brexit announcement and it was one of the causes of Brexit. It is important to empirically assess the first effects of political instabilities related to Brexit on the labor market [5][6][7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, Google query searches have been successfully exploited to predict consumer sales ( [16,36] or [2] and [32]), unemployment [3,17,25,44,45], stock market evolution ( [13,29], or still [42]), and even spread in influenza [16].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second it is freely accessible and consequently frequently used. 3 Third, SocialMention allows quite flexible queries in terms of date, location, and language to fit to our specific study of Belgian telecom brands.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%