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Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation: Evidence from urban Ethiopiahttp://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html2008Serneels, PieterAlthough it is a common theoretical assumption that the chances to find a job fall with time in unemployment, this is not systematically confirmed by empirical evidence, and there is no evidence for developing countries. We develop a framework that allows us to test the four major explanations why we may observe non-negative duration dependence while genuine duration dependence is negative: financial support for the unemployed, active labour market policies, a change in the economy over time, and segmentation of the labour market into 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Using data for urban Ethiopia we observe a constant hazard while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, and find that labour market segmentation is the only convincing explanation.Labour economicsEconomicsunemploymentduration dependencesegmented labour marketsurban labour marketJEL: J64JEL: C41enhttp://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.htmltextWorking/Discussion paperPublishedNot peer reviewedAuthor's OriginalPublishedOxford Research Archive - Handle URL: http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk:8081/10030/2548Oxford Research Archive internal ID: ora:2548ora:2548urn:uuid:114b4a96-ea12-45b6-a918-bd4bd8348115http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk:8080/fedora/oaioai:ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk:uuid:114b4a96-ea12-45b6-a918-bd4bd83481152009-01-23T10:30:18Zhttp://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/