composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …

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

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 …

. Labour market institutions also influence unemployment rates in different ways. Unemployment benefits are found to have a …We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … individuals, in general, experience lower unemployment rates, changes in the population age structure appear to be positively …

learn from experience is itself affected by economic institutions. A society which does not trust markets is more likely to … institutions reinforce each other in slowing or preventing people from learning the correct underlying parameters. …

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 …