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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of … incidence and duration and find that most variables have the same effect on both. Unemployment is concentrated among relatively …
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unemployment rates, three different econometric models are specified and estimated: a cross-sectional model, a pooled data model …, and a model taking into account unobserved time-invariant effects on regional unemployment rates. It is found that the … link between home ownership and unemployment levels is inverse in cross-section but positive in panel estimations. The …
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The extent to which an increase in the unemployment rate has an effect on children’s wellbeing is not well understood …. This article provides estimates of the potential impact of an increase in the unemployment rate on behavioural and … unemployment rate leads to an increase in the number of children with behavioural or emotional problems. This finding underscores …
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The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek unemployment allowing for cross-sectional dependence among … properties of Greek regional unemployment rates using recently developed and more powerful panel unit-root tests, such as the … regional unemployment rates in Greece are subject to a structural break both in mean and the slope of the series, the null …
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This study develops an on-the-job search model involving spatial structure. In this model, workers are either employed and commute frequently to a central business district (CBD) or unemployed and commute less frequently to the CBD in search of jobs. When an unemployed worker succeeds in...
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Until recently, regional labour market imbalances were considered transitory phenomena, a consequence of state failure in generating distorted investment incentives in depressed regions as well as of excessive labour market rigidities. Labour mobility and wage flexibility were at the core of the...
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neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …
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unemployment rates, three different econometric models are specified and estimated: a cross-sectional model, a pooled data model …, and a model taking into account unobserved time-invariant effects on regional unemployment rates. It is found that the … link between home ownership and unemployment levels is inverse in cross-section but positive in panel estimations. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755942
-term unemployment rate and people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and, as crime variables we use four different types of crimes … significant risk factor in predicting crime and unemployment is not a significant risk factor even if we considered the long …-term unemployment. …
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The purpose of the paper is to examine the nature of Greek regional unemployment. The paper contributes to the … literature assessing the stochastic properties of Greek unemployment rate in the context of the Greek regions by relying on … in all cases, after taking into account the fact that regional unemployment rates in Greece are subject to a structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076304