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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Olga Susana; Robalino, David A.; … - 2016
This study reviews the evidence on the impact of youth employment programs on labor market outcomes. The analysis looks at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence program performance including country context, targeted beneficiaries, program design and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559691
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Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Kluve, Jochen; Puerto, Susanna; Robalino, David; … - 2016
This study reviews the evidence on the labor market impact of youth employment programs. We analyze the effectiveness of interventions, and factors that influence program performance including country context, target beneficiaries, program design, implementation, and evaluation type. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584258
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance : New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - 2004
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262178
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Schaal, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822244
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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity
Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009
between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265772
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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009
Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265813
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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509376
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Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity
Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend …The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558459
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson: Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows in competitiveness in a set of seven euroarea member countries (Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic) in the context of real convergence and crisis. A specific focus is on Greece. The paper extends the seminal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372079
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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265796