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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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destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …
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This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …
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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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collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
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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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principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … training systems. To tackle the Keynesian and neoclassical components of unemployment, instead, it is vital to rethink the …
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As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet if ineffective, vocational schooling could also be a sinkhole, offering little chance for success...
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This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study … whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth unemployment rates increased due to an increase … in youth wages relative to adult wages. To anticipate our results, we find that the youth unemployment rates increased …
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Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment … evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of fighting youth unemployment using results from a randomised controlled trial …
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