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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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Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an …
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evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of fighting youth unemployment using results from a randomised controlled trial … findings are relatively unfavourable in the sense that further intensification of an already quite intensive effort for youth …
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In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low … as main causal factors. Strict employment protection legislation is only concern for high-skilled youth. Reducing labor … are proposed as key remedies. In addition, youth should be entitled as of the start of unemployment to a low benefit based …
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Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...
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Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … based on educational backgrounds and psychometric assessments. Although over 1,000 matches were made, youth rejected the …, unemployed, youth to apply for jobs of varying levels of prestige. We find youth apply to only a small proportion of the job …
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
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This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both groups. The evidence collected shows that there is no...
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This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …
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