Despite the increasing focus on labour market dynamics, little is known about either the quality of the underlying data or the appropriateness of the standard methodologies frequently used to analyse labour market dynamics in Europe (the retrospective and matched files approaches). This paper is...

This paper reviews some of the applications that use the vast swathes of information provided by Internet user searches for economic analysis and forecasting. This enormous volume of information, available in real time, can be handled by analysts thanks to statistical tools such as “Google...