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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...
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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 … times of recession. The main part is devoted to possible lessons for Korea from Europe, in particular from Germany. Dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884388
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David; Almeida, Rita K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper presents the treatment effects from participating in a subsidized vocational training program targeted at women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data from a randomized field experiment to quantify the 6-...
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078569
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763654
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments: The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763770
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
Cockx, Bart - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a "control function" estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763888
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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Attanasio, Orazio; Kugler, Adriana; Meghir, Costas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected data on individuals randomly offered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030879
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Swedish Labor Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment
Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700930