little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration …

unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced … data linked with administrative data, we show that numeracy skills are strongly related to unemployment duration, while at … longer unemployment duration of workers below median age (33) in our sample, even after including a rich set of controls. We …

In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the … sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …

sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid …

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

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and … from the experience of unemployment. This result partially compensates the fact that more education reduces the incidence … subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth …

This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that …

This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. …