A Bridge between sentiment indicators: what does Google trends tell us about COVID-19 pandemic and employment expectations in the EU new member states?

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
A Bridge between sentiment indicators: what does Google trends tell us about COVID-19 pandemic and employment expectations in the EU new member states?
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In the Journal:
Technological forecasting & social change, 2021, 173, 121170, 1-11
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Sveikatos priežiūra / Health care; Socialinė politika / Social policy.
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ENThe sentiment indicators tend to reflect better the social tensions caused by COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, the aim of this paper is to reflect the relationship between employment expectations and tensions related to new coronavirus. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employment expectations is assessed using the data collected by Google Trends in Panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (panel ARDL) models and Bayesian multilevel model. The results indicated that COVID-19 searched on Google had a negative impact on employment expectations in the EU New Member States on the period March 2020-May 2021. The unemployment and inflation rate had also a negative effect, while improvement in economic sentiment indicator has increased the employment expectations. These results are the support of economic policies to reduce labour market tensions and improve employment expectations. Keywords: Employment expectations; Google Trends; COVID-19 pandemic; Social policy.

DOI:
10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121170
ISSN:
0040-1625; 1873-5509
Subject:
Vadyba / Management
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2026-02-25 13:41:29
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