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A Closer Look at the Correlation Between Google Trends and Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims
Abstract: Since the onset of the pandemic, there has been growing interest in tracking labor market activity with “big data” sources like Google Trends.1 Just as an example, one can track how the number of Google searches with the term unemployment office has changed over the past week for the Chicago metro area or explore how unemployment became one of the top searched issues across the U.S. during the early months of the pandemic here.
Keywords: Covid-19; insurance; unemployment;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Publication Date: 2020-06-17