Forecasting youth unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: the Italian case
dc.contributor.author | Fenga, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Son-Turan, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-17T12:43:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-01-01 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-05-17T10:04:19Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Purpose: This study aims at forecasting NEET unemployment in Italy using a counterfactual scenario, based on an original empirical model, whereby the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the NEET rate are factored in and left out. Methodology: An artificial neural network (ANN) model of the type feed-forward, with a Google Trends-generated variable that represents potentially relevant search queries, is employed to backcast, nowcast and forecast Italian NEET unemployment for 2019, 2020, 2021, respectively. Findings: Findings suggest that the Italian NEET unemployment rate will slightly increase in a less than proportional way, absorbing the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects in a relatively short time period. Research Implications/ Limitation: Several limitations with respect to the limited sample size and the few number of explanatory variables are remedied through the use of an adequate methodology. Originality: The use of an ANN in youth unemployment studies during a pandemic of the present scale is, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, unprecedented. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 75-91 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 75-91 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.37502/ijsmr.2022.5105 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/129660 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-8185-2680 (Fenga, Livio) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Amanxo Publication | en_GB |
dc.rights | © IJSMR 2021. All articles published by IJSMR will be distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License(CC-BY). So anyone is allowed to copy, distribute, and transmit the article on the condition that the original article and source are correctly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Artificial neural network | en_GB |
dc.subject | COVID–19 | en_GB |
dc.subject | youth unemployment | en_GB |
dc.subject | pandemic | en_GB |
dc.subject | maximum entropy bootstrap | en_GB |
dc.title | Forecasting youth unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic: the Italian case | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-05-17T12:43:42Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2581-6888 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Amanxo Publication via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | International Journal of Scientific and Management Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Scientific and Management Research, 05(01) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2022-01-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-05-17T12:39:47Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-05-17T12:43:49Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2022-01-01 |
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