, unemployment exhibits persistence in the sense of duration dependence: the probability of obtaining a job decreases in the length …

South Africans unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world, and it has important distributional implications …. The paper examines the incidence of unemployment using two national household surveys for the mid-1990s. Both entry to … unemployment and the duration of unemployment are examined. A probit model of the determinants of unemployment is estimated: it …

both the vacancy- unemployment ratio and employment. We show that the standard version of the Mortensen-Pissarides matching …

The social science literature has done much to document pervasive racial discrimination in Brazil and there is little … attempted to quantify the impact of ethnic discrimination in Brazil. Using data culled from the Pesquisa National por Amostra de …

equities, we examine equilibrium unemployment. While a mechanism of an efficiency wage brings about nominal wage rigidity …, unemployment occurring in our model definitely has Keynesian features. For instance, a reduction in wages rather enhances … unemployment through a decrease in consumption. In addition, our paper shows a possibility of Pareto improvement through an …

Are certain groups of unemployed individuals hurt less by unemployment than others? This paper is an attempt to test … the hypothesis that non- pecuniary costs of unemployment may vary between societies with different unemployment rates … related to unemployment for South African adults as to be expected in richer countries. Reported well-being levels are shown …

unemployment persistence. …