This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis in this … paper is that we explain several stylized facts on labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics (2010) the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census (2008). An …

returned to previous levels within a few quarters. Consequently, the total loss in employment caused by the rise in mismatch … suggests that increased inactivity among older workers, the so called She-cession (particularly in the US) and shifting worker … preferences amid strong labor demand are more prominent explanations for the persistent employment shortfall vis-à-vis pre …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

-Open Unemployment SOU), and Lack of Adequate Returns from jobs (incidence of poverty among more or less regular workers or Non-Employment …Inadequate utilisation of available manpower is a perennial problem in India, with Open Unemployment (OU) being a major … evil. Two other issues that have often been sidelined are Lack of Regular employment (Underemployment or Semi …

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 … percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in … November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some new evidence, this paper establishes that much of the change in unemployment …

their employment histories, and that falling into nonemployment seems to be a more transitory phenomenon for displaced …

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …

-existing, state-specific share of workers eligible for KA. We find, first, that KA was crucial in mitigating unemployment: absent its … expansion the unemployment rate would have increased by an additional 3 pp on average at the trough of the recession. Second, KA …