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 …

new evidence on the effect of education and skill-language, computer and numeracy skills-on unemployment duration in Ghana … unemployment duration. We found that education reduces the duration of unemployment in general. However, the effect is higher for …-Saharan African countries (SSAs), particularly Ghana. The weakness in the link between education and the needed skill by the industry …

neighbourhoods have multiple problems - unemployment three times the nationalaverage; Income Support claims twice as high; health and …

As unemployment falls it is often the most disadvantaged unemployed whoget left behind. To identify what works to …

education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to …