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Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions

Biagi, Federico; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … individuals, in general, experience lower unemployment rates, changes in the population age structure appear to be positively … related to young workers’ unemployment rates while they have no effect on adults. Conversely changes in the skill structure …

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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … unemployment rate of adults aged 45 to 54; in Germany, this figure is only 1.7. Further peculiarities come up if unemployment is …By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...

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Testing the Validity of Item Non-Response as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Kassenboehmer, Sonja C.; Schurer, Stefanie; Leung, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...

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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Solon, Gary - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons’ and daughters’ socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...

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Youth Unemployment in India: From a European and Transitional Labour Market Point of View

Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second …, it provides a simple but powerful model for the main causes of youth unemployment from which general policy strategies … can be derived and illustrated by good practice examples from Europe, in particular Germany. Third, because a large part …

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Household Shocks and Education Investment in Madagascar

Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E.; Walker, Thomas F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper measured the extent to which households in Madagascar adjust children's school attendance in order to cope with exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply. Our analysis was based on a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household...

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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills

McCann, Robert J.; Shi, Xianwen; Siow, Aloysius; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are gains to specialization and team production, but specialization requires communication and...

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