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 examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the … sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would … in unemployment signifies a more accurate reflection of disguised unemployment that already existed in the mid-1990s …

sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid …

Västernorrland due to better opportunities to get a job and education. With regard to out-migration, the findings also suggest that …