We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming … that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of … unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour Market Policies, the change in labour demand, segmentation of the labour …

incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively … well-educated first time job seekers who come from the middle classes. Mean duration of unemployment is close to four years …With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates …

Regarding the trade-off between the depth and the duration of recessions, there exists a mounting empirical evidence of … GDP in depth and a relative difference of 3 years duration can be attributed to this parameter. Overlooked for decades …

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 …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …