s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …

characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the principal results of the survey, helps …

detailed picture of the main characteristics of employment and unemployment in the country. This study, which presents the …

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …

distribution is endogenously determined. We use this model to analyze the comparative statics effects of increases in unemployment … compensation on the unemployment rate and aggregate welfare taking into account the induced change in the wage offer distribution … a selective increase in unemployment compensation, made available to those who impute a relatively low value to leisure …

In this paper the effects of unemployment on mental health are analysed. A simple model where both the occurrence of … and duration of unemployment are allowed to affect mental health is specified. Panel data are used to control for "fixed …