in the Niger Delta (Nigeria) and to national surveys (Afrobarometer). …

decline in the unemployment rate can be attributed to the increase in the labor force, while the number of job seekers remains …, which lowers the markup by 3 percentage points, results in a fall in the unemployment rate by 0.1 and 0.05 percentage point …

This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …

-term economic outlook, namely the Industrial Production Index and the Unemployment Rate. …

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … the persistence of unemployment. …

, labour and financial markets) and employment performance. Our analysis includes unemployment, inactivity and jobless rates … institutional rigidities affecting unemployment impact inactivity along the same line. To cope with common problems related to the … variables. New institutional series are proposed, namely to account for unemployment insurance net replacement rates and …

telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …

since the 2001 French unemployment policy reform (PARE). Several of the schemes are dedicated at improving the quality of … assignment of workers to jobs. As a result, it is necessary to assess their impact on unemployment recurrence as well as … unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogenous and time-dependent causal …