Papers on “unemployment”
Research on “unemployment” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “unemployment” appeared in 1,281 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (976), finance (112) and management (84).
- 137 of them were published in 2025, against 101 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (15), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (10) and Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economic Modelling (23), Resources Policy (18) and Labour Economics (18).
- The most-cited of them is “Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda” (Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2020), with 559 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 87 | 110 | 91 | 105 | 97 | 82 | 108 | 103 | 105 | 88 |
| Finance | 4 | 11 | 6 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 14 |
| Management | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 6 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| Operations Research | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Tourism and Hospitality | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Higher Education and Research | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 101 | 138 | 115 | 152 | 139 | 107 | 141 | 132 | 137 | 119 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Economic Modelling | 23 |
| 2 | Resources Policy | 18 |
| 3 | Labour Economics | 18 |
| 4 | Economics Letters | 16 |
| 5 | Indian Journal of Labour Economics | 14 |
| 6 | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | 13 |
| 7 | Empirical Economics | 13 |
| 8 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 13 |
| 9 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 11 |
| 10 | World Development | 11 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics | 15 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 10 |
| 3 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 7 |
| 4 | International Monetary Fund | 7 |
| 5 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 6 |
| 6 | Universitat Jaume I | 6 |
| 7 | University of Oxford | 6 |
| 8 | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | 6 |
| 9 | Brunel University of London | 5 |
| 10 | Georgetown University | 5 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 126 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 65 |
| 3 | Germany | 60 |
| 4 | China | 50 |
| 5 | Spain | 48 |
| 6 | Italy | 43 |
| 7 | France | 25 |
| 8 | India | 24 |
| 9 | Australia | 23 |
| 10 | Switzerland | 14 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | inflation | 66 |
| 2 | COVID-19 pandemic | 51 |
| 3 | income inequality | 39 |
| 4 | economic growth | 34 |
| 5 | labor market outcomes | 27 |
| 6 | monetary policy | 23 |
| 7 | business cycles | 22 |
| 8 | job creation | 17 |
| 9 | labor force participation | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 559 | 7.2 | Unemployment in the time of COVID-19: A research agenda | Journal of Vocational Behavior | 2020-05-07 | David L. Blustein, Ryan D. Duffy, Joaquim Armando Ferreira et al. |
| 2 | 559 | 7.5 | Paradoxes of artificial intelligence in consumer markets: Ethical challenges and opportunities | Journal of Business Research | 2020-08-28 | Shuili Du, Chunyan Xie |
| 3 | 533 | 7.1 | Sheltering in place and domestic violence: Evidence from calls for service during COVID-19 | Journal of Public Economics | 2020-07-23 | Emily Leslie, Riley Wilson |
| 4 | 496 | 9.7 | An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Ethics | IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence | 2022-07-28 | Changwu Huang, Zeqi Zhang, Bifei Mao et al. |
| 5 | 333 | 3.2 | Population norms for the EQ-5D-3L: a cross-country analysis of population surveys for 20 countries | The European Journal of Health Economics | 2018-02-14 | Mathieu F. Janssen, Ágota Szende, Juan Manuel Cabasés Hita et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “unemployment”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/unemployment
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