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Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe : economic factors and labour market institutions

Biagi, Federico (contributor); Lucifora, Claudio (contributor) - 2005

We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by cohort, gender and education -, we empirically test the economic effects of two stylised facts that have occurred in recent...

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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...

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Teenage conduct problems: a lifetime of disadvantage in the labour market?

Parsons, Sam; Bryson, Alex; Sullivan, Alice Isabella - 2021

Using data from two British birth cohorts born in 1958 and 1970 we investigate the impact of teenage conduct problems on subsequent employment prospects through to age 42. We find teenagers with conduct problems went on to spend fewer months both in paid employment, and in employment, education...

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The future of work : challenges for job creation due to global demographic change and automation

Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; … - 2020

We explore future job creation needs under conditions of demographic, economic, and technological change. First, we estimate the implications for job creation in 2020-2030 of population growth, changes in labor force participation, and the achievement of plausible target unemployment rates,...

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How different are immigrants? : A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

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The origins of intergenerational associations : lessons from Swedish adoption data

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2005

We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...

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Cross-national surveys of learning achievement : how robust are the findings?

Brown, Giorgina; Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; … - 2005

International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a...

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Intergenerational effects in Sweden : what can we learn from adoption data?

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Family structure and child outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children's outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement : evidence from a placement policy

Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is …

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