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By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: ‘only’ 9.6 percent of the ‘active …’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … the perspective of intergenerational risk sharing Korea’s youth unemployment rate is 4.6 times higher than the …
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workplace safety of young workers. We find that higher local unemployment rates at entry have a positive effect both on severe … injuries and non-severe injuries. While the impact of unemployment at entry on severe injuries is constant over time, the …
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employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the …
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Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
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We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...
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age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime …
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The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...
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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 …-term scar effects for the unemployed youth are briefly reviewed. Large differences of unemployment performance among European …
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Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...
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During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in...
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