This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed …

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 …