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This paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries. It argues that young people aged 16 … and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data. It argues that there is convincing evidence that the young are …. Because the current youth cohort is relatively large, the longer-term outlook for youth unemployment is quite good, but there …
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This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16 …-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as case studies, we analyse youth unemployment … individuals and society well into the future. Though the effects of current policies on youth unemployment are uncertain, there is …
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We perform an incentivized experiment designed to assess the accuracy of beliefs about characteristics and decisions. Subjects are asked to declare some specific choices and characteristics with different levels of observability from an external point of view, and typically formed through real...
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Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in low-income countries. Little is known whether these differences have an effect on the labor statistics...
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The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on inconsistent information on these employment characteristics resulting from yearly transition...
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...
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Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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unverzichtbar. Die Unternehmen sind ebenso in der Pflicht, sich der Zeitenwende auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu stellen, wollen sie … zwischen Gewinnern und Verlierern auf dem Arbeitsmarkt einhergehen. Die Arbeit geht uns nicht aus, sie erfordert aber mehr denn …
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