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 …

reservation wage on unemployment duration. According to estimations there is no statistically significant effect of unemployment … unemployment benefit or social assistance increases the duration of the unemployment period, which indicates the lower offer …

unemployment, undue instability, and excess debt. …

unemployment. The public sector is decomposed into general government and an unfunded pension system with a tax benefit linkage … effects. They strengthen labor supply both in terms of job search intensity, leading to lower unemployment rates, and hours …

In this paper, the effects of alternatives to finance unemployment benefits on employment and wages are examined in a … model with search generated equilibrium unemployment. It is demonstrated that employment improves if a value--added tax is …

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

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another … have more entitlements, waiting in unemployment for a good job is not one of them. We carry out two separate analyses to … no added worker effect. This suggests that households have other ways to cope with unemployment and is consistent with …

increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …