Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124963 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9456
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper uses micro data from the ILO-STWT surveys to provide novel evidence on the duration, end point and determinants of the transition from school to work in a sample of 23 low and middle-income countries around the world. The negative effects of low levels of human capital and high levels of population growth on job finding rates, seems to be at least in part offset by widespread poverty and lack of unemployment insurance, leading to overall faster transitions in low income economies compared to middle income economies. By lowering reservation wages and speeding transitions these latter forces lead overall to worse matches, as measured by the probability of attaining stable employment in the long-run.
Subjects: 
transition duration
hazard model
unemployment
developing countries
JEL: 
J64
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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