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Waiting longer before claiming, and activating youth : no point?
Cockx, Bart; Van Belle, Eva - 2016
counselling and training in the Youth Work Plan (YWP) if a job is not found within three months. The length of the waiting period …
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Screening through activation : differential effects of a youth activation programme
Hall, Caroline; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Liljeberg, Linus; … - 2017
theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths : beware of spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013
We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...
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The work-to-school transition : job displacement and skill upgrading among young high school Dropouts
Bennett, Patrick - 2021
This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...
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Use of ICTs : what effect on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon?
Meka’a, Cosmas Bernard; Njiepue Nouffeussie, Astride … - 2023
quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the …
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Corruption and political stability : does the youth bulge matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Witthuhn, Stefan - 2016 - This version: 05.05.2016
This study shows that the relative size of the youth bulge matters for how corruption affects the internal stability of … with a relatively large youth population. Using panel data covering the 2002-2012 period for more than 100 countries, we … find a negative interaction effect between the relative size of the youth population and corruption on internal political …
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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013
This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...
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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
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