Market structure and spells of employment and unemployment: Evidence from the construction sector in Egypt
市场结构与就业、失业持续期:埃及建筑业证据
Abstract This paper investigates the links between market structure and spells of employment and unemployment in the construction sector in Egypt using an augmented job search framework. Two key features of the model are the reservation frontier which allows for a trade‐off between wages and expected duration of employment, and the dependency of unemployment durations on expected employment durations and expected wages. These, as well as conjectures concerning the influence…