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 …

This paper investigates the role of education in the job search process of the young unemployed workers. Exploiting the … education on unemployment duration. We show that high-educated individuals, compared to their low-educated counterparts, stay … education may be increasing one's selectiveness over jobs. This difference in unemployment duration between the high- vs. the …