With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …

mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …

This paper demonstrates that the delivery of hardware inputs to Ghana’s basic education system – building classrooms … Universal Primary Education. The context for these improvements was a government strongly committed to implementing a program of … educational reform that refocused government resources away from secondary and tertiary education and onto the basic sector. But …

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. …