of time that an agent has been unemployed. Finally, we examine inequality between two groups. If staying in the labor …, unemployment exhibits persistence in the sense of duration dependence: the probability of obtaining a job decreases in the length …

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 …

Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the … employer-provided training, and the number of training events, have larger effects on wages for minority workers than they do …

of approximately $550 per week. Income inequality within the total working-aged Mâori population declined, while income … inequality among employed Mâori was stable. An analysis of some of the key factors contributing to change in the income …

employment-based dispersion index] has an effect on unemployment. Among the findings of this paper we emphasize that sectoral … employment shifts affect unemployment both in the long- and in the short-term. Moreover, we find that the effect of sectoral … reallocation on the unemployment rate occurs only after some delay. …