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 study assesses the effects of education on both job search intensity and re-employment success for unemployed … workers. Given that the positive correlation between education and job search intensity or re-employment success is likely to … that education both significantly increases job search intensity and significantly improves re-employment success for the …