Arbeitspapier

Does economic growth deliver jobs? Revisiting Okun's Law

This paper revisits the relationship between economic growth and employment creation as expressed in Okun's law by using the latest updated global ILO dataset for new and more detailed estimates. The analysis confirms that there are important variations across regions of the world and income levels in both magnitude and significance of this relationship: In developing and emerging countries, the Okun's coefficient is lower than in developed countries. Moreover, there are important differences de­pending on the labour market structures as given by the level of informality or the relative presence of SMEs in the labour markets. Furthermore, the paper examines the extent to which the sectoral com­position of growth is associated with the responsiveness of unemployment to business cycles: In de­veloped economies, there are large variations in sectoral elasticities while in developing and emerg­ing countries, the role of sectoral composition is limited. While further research is needed to better understand the relationship between economic growth and employment, especially in the presence of high informality (and SMEs), the analysis in this paper calls for greater caution in using Okun's co­efficients to inform policy decisions.

Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-92-2-033406-5

Erschienen in
Series: ILO Working Paper ; No. 17

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
employment
economic growth

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lee, Sangheon
Schmidt-Klau, Dorothea
Weiss, Johannes
Chacaltana, Juan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
(wo)
Geneva
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lee, Sangheon
  • Schmidt-Klau, Dorothea
  • Weiss, Johannes
  • Chacaltana, Juan
  • International Labour Organization (ILO)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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