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Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation. Evidence from urban Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Although it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unmeployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries. We develop a farmework that allows us to test the four major explanations...

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An Emprirical Study of Unemployment Benefit Preferences.

Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996

We study the role of preferences in the process of unemployment benefit determination. Perhaps surprisingly, survey … evidence for the UK suggests that both the employed and unemployed wish to see a more generous level of unemployment benefits. …

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The Determination of Unemployment Benefits.

Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996

We present a simple model where unemployment benefits are determined in an economy in which there is endogenous delay … in finding a job so that workers desire insurance against the possibility of unemployment. …

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AN ANALYSIS OF MIGRATION BASED ON THE HIRING FUNCTION.

JACKMAN, R.; SAVOURI, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1990

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Wages, Unemployment and Population Change.

Nickell, S. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1991

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Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: A dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns

Giraud, Gael; Rochon, Celine - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

non convex) production, where the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) emerges as the asymptotic value of unemployment … underemployment and unsold inventories can survive along the solution paths of our dynamics - the hallmark of the failure of Say's law …

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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Unemployment: Application to University Enrolment in Spain

Fernandez, Rosa M.; Shioji, Etsuro - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …

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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed

Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour … market, and unemployment as a queuing phenomenon. We test each of these explanations and find that labour market segmentation …

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Institutions and Wage Determination: a Multi-Country Approach

Nunziata, Luca - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

on unemployment are examined. The model controls for macroeconomic shocks, and include the possibility of interactions …

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China, South Africa and the Lewis Model

Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

, and in the growth of their labour forces. Whereas China - a labour-surplus economy par excellence despite unemployment … historically has been short of labour - is moving towards increased labour surplus in the form of open unemployment. The paper …

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