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Mindestlohnevaluation jetzt und nicht erst 2020

Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Spermann, Alexander; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Anhebung der Altersgrenze für Jugendliche auf 21 Jahre und ein Stufenmodell für Jugendliche nach britischem Vorbild. Die …

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The Impact of Adolescent Motherhood on Education in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990–2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...

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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth

Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …

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Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...

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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime

Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants

McKenzie, David Mckenzie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … results suggest a high degree of commonality in the youth migrant experience across a number of destination countries. In … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

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Raising Juveniles

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a 'hierarchical' scheme,...

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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and male-dominated occupations are both related to the extent to which individuals believe they are...

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Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug-Selling Gangs

Carvalho, Leandro; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

characterize drug-trafficking jobs and study the selection into gangs, analyzing what distinguishes gang-members from other youth …

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La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy

Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …

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