previous employer, causing firms to discriminate in monitoring. We confirm the model's prediction that the unemployment hazard … longer unemployment durations for blacks, are known to be strongly empirically supported …

similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be … understood in a labor market segmentation framework. Existing models of unemployment in a dual labor market suggest that … unemployment should be concentrated among those who are ultimately employed in high wage jobs. In fact, unemployment seems to be …

Sri Lanka has a significant chronic unemployment problem. Depending on time period and the definition of unemployment … it varies from the low teens to over twenty percent. Nearly all of this unemployment is concentrated among young people … who are looking for their first job. Unemployment duration is very long with typical spells lasting four years or more …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher unemployment and shorter employment …

We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment … existing model explains the unemployment rate differential. Models of statistical discrimination based on differential … employment and unemployment. At their current state of development, models of statistical discrimination based on rational …