What Does Google Trends Tell Us about the Impact of Brexit on the Unemployment Rate in the UK?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F20%3A81610" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/20:81610 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/1011" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/3/1011</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12031011" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12031011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What Does Google Trends Tell Us about the Impact of Brexit on the Unemployment Rate in the UK?

Original language description

Considering the debate related to the potential effects of Brexit on the UK economy, the aim of this paper is to assess the impact of Brexit on the monthly unemployment rate since the vote for the UK leave from the European Union. This is one of the most important indicators of sustainable development for the country. The novelty of this research is given by the use of microdata to reflect the political instability brought by Brexit, with Google Trends being the tool for collecting the data. Moreover, the data for the four countries that compose the UK are considered (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales) in a panel data and multilevel framework. The results are consistent with the analysis of important macroeconomic indicators and indicate that Brexit concerns decreased the unemployment rate in the period June 2016 to March 2019, with few arguments being provided for this. The state policies should encourage the investment in order to support the future economic growth and sustainable developm

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

2071-1050

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1-10

UT code for WoS article

000519135105010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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