enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

, has been labelled as the cause of rising unemployment and prolonged unemployment duration in Ghana. This paper presents … 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 …

matching frictions and average unemployment duration. … labour markets with higher contract-type mismatch rates are characterized by lower hazard rates and longer unemployment … duration. Improving the desirability of temporary contracts and information about local contract-type mismatch rates may reduce …