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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
unemployment primarily result from structural differences in labor policy and in the (vocational) education system, short …
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Youth unemployment in Belgium : diagnosis and key remedies
Cockx, Bart - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 48 (2013) 4, pp. 202-209
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Improving employment prospects for young workers in Spain
Wölfl, Anita - 2013
low levels of education. There are two crucial policy priorities to improve employment prospects for youth in Spain. First … Spanish youth labour market. This implies in particular reforms to prevent youth from dropping out of education at a very … education to those asked for by businesses, as well as to establish an effective system of vocational education, and to reduce …
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Can hiring subsidies benefit the unemployed? : hiring subsidies can be a very cost-effective way of helping the unemployed, but only when they are carefully targeted
Brown, Alessio J. G. - 2015
Long-term unemployment can lead to skill attrition and have detrimental effects on future employment prospects, particularly following periods of economic crises when employment growth is slow and cannot accommodate high levels of unemployment. Addressing this problem requires the use of active...
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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?
Lerman, Robert Irving - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20
Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...
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Do minimum wages lead to job losses? : evidence from OECD countries on low-skilled and youth employment
Sturn, Simon - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 71 (2018) 3, pp. 647-675
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - In: Journal of public economics 235 (2024), pp. 1-16
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Youth unemployment
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 48 (2013) 4, pp. 196-235
dramatic rise in the number of youth not in employment, education or training, which has led to widespread concerns about the … studies of England, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Ireland. It also examines Germany’s dual vocational training system as one …
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Youth Employment Policies In France
Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this paper, we present a summary of recent microeconometric results on the evaluation of the effects of active labour market policies on youth employment in France. We focus our discussion on three types of policies: (1) youth employment schemes for out-of-employment and low-skilled young...
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Employment Patterns in OECD Countries : Reassessing the Role of Policies and Institutions
Bassanini, Andrea - 2006
This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/pricesetting models, are estimated using cross-country/time-series data from 21 OECD...
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