Okun's Law: Fit at Fifty?

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Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany (2013, result): “…of a more general analysis of this issue could provide a structural interpretation of the findings in Blanchard and Wolfers (2000), and shed light on the empirical results that the short-run output-unemployment elasticity (Okun’s law) varies across countries (Ball, Leigh, and Loungani, 2013).”
An agent-based stock-flow consistent model of the sustainable transition in the energy sector (2018, unknown): “Both curves are in line with the empirical evidence (see Ball et al., 2013; Fitzgerald et al., 2013 for more details).”
Testing and explaining economic resilience with an application to Italian regions (2017, background): “…in a given region, and interactions in output and employment among regions, admitting the possibility that such connections are likely to be not fully contemporaneous at quarterly frequency, and it takes time for employment to adjust to its and other regions’ dynamics in output (Ball et al., 2013).”