Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with … education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a … explain around two-thirds of educated unemployment in urban Burkina Faso and one-quarter in Senegal. We then simulate three …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …

worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …