The objective of this paper is to extend the unemployment theoretical model developed by Marston (1985) and apply it to the Brazilian States data. The main aspect of the proposed extension regards to the role exerted by the unemployed average human capital. As local attractive, the extended model considers the role of the average wage difference from the national and the economy structure. On the econometrics side, the main contribution regards to the dynamic panel data estimates that takes into consideration the endogeneity and omitted variables problems. The results are that the unemployed level of the education has a non-linear effect on the unemployment rate. For average levels of education above four years the education level led the unemployment rate to diminish. The state economy sector that helps to decrease the unemployment rate was the agricultural one, once the educations was accounted for.
unemployment; education; fixed-effect; dynamic estimates
