Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with … education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a … explain around two-thirds of educated unemployment in urban Burkina Faso and one-quarter in Senegal. We then simulate three …

unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … less even with respect to the distribution of unemployment. Regarding centrality, we demonstrate that local unemployment … unevenness and concentration of unemployment in the center, but find little affirmative evidence. Instead, the strong overall …