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 …

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 …

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 …

labor market outcomes for men and women in France and Germany, two countries with different education systems. Using … which education reduces the unemployment risk is examined, distinguishing between risk of entering unemployment …, unemployment duration and recurrence of unemployment episodes. Finally, evidence is given on the impact of education on individual …