Okun's law

area: Macroeconomics · 1 papers in the last 7 days

\Delta u_t = -\beta\,(g_t - \bar g)

Links changes in unemployment to output growth relative to its trend.

LaTeX: \Delta u_t = -\beta\,(g_t - \bar g)

Names searched for: Okun's law, Okun law

Key findings#

Okun's law was mentioned in 1 papers in the last 30 days (2026-09-29 to 2026-10-28), ranking #100 of the 103 equations and models mentioned.
By journal category: Economics (1).
Most of them appeared in Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (1).
Often mentioned together with Herfindahl-Hirschman index (1).
From Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, 18 archived papers mentioned Okun's law in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Apr 2024 (3).

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Oct 23–Sep 24	Oct 24–Sep 25	Oct 25–Sep 26	36 months
	4	6	8	18

Papers mentioning Okun's law, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-26	Growth without employment: regional heterogeneity and unemployment dynamics in Western Papua, Indonesia, 2010–2030	Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science	Agustinus Elton Sesa	Arizona State University

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Okun's law. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 28, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/equations/okun-s-law

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  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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