, in many African countries, unemployment rates are low and growth is seldom jobless. Regrettably, most of the poor work … long hours and cannot make ends meet while the violation of basic human rights is not uncommon. Again, youth unemployment …, demography and institutions). Thus, at all stages of development, forcing economic production to spread evenly across areas is …

States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …

of work. The immorality of consigning a portion of the workforce to the degradation of unemployment would be eliminated …

coordination frictions and rentseeking behavior. Our results indicate that jointly increasing unemployment benefits and the …