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Impact of temporary migration on long-run economic development : the legacy of the sent-down youth program
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Zhao, Guochang - 2024
migration impacted rural economic development in the regions that received a larger number of SDY per capita relative to regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525019
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Labor market and institutional drivers of youth irregular migration : evidence from the MENA region
Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid - 2018
Irregular migration became an alarming issue over the last decade for both developed and developing countries. A … prevailing assumption in migration policy is that labor market and institutional characteristics play a crucial role in pushing …, the lack of wealth and economic opportunities enhance their willingness to engage in irregular migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011934453
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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498539
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Decision to emigrate amongst the youth in Lebanon
Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid - 2017
higher propensity to emigrate. It is also found that being male and unemployed has a positive incidence on migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607350
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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020
BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in … developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa …. METHODS: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178292
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Migration aspirations among NEETs in selected MENA countries
Ramos, Raúl - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - 2017
more obvious reactions of youth facing unmet aspirations in the labour market is migration. The objective of the paper is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762188
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What if it never happened? : subjective treatment effects of a negative shock on youth labour market outcomes in developing countries
Favara, Marta; Freund, Richard; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2023
This paper examines the subjective treatment effects of a negative shock created by the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market outcomes of young adults in India, Peru, and Vietnam. We leverage subjective counterfactual outcomes at the individual-level that were purposely collected from over...
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Young adults and labor markets in Africa
Bandiera, Oriana; Elsayed, Ahmed; Smurra, Andrea; … - 2021
Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are similar at similar levels of development but young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803752
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Crowdwork for young people: risks and opportunities
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Caro, Luis Pinedo - 2021
In recent years, crowdworking has emerged as a small but rapidly growing source of employment and income principally for young(er) people. Here, we build on previous work in identifying the determinants of crowdworkers' earnings. We focus on the reasons why young crowdworkers earn significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793115
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Ethnic minority youths in the labour markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Niknami, Susan; Schröder, Lena; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2019
This paper uses administrative data to in detail document how the share of youths not in employment, education or training has evolved over time in the Scandinavian countries. We study both first- and second-generation immigrant youths as well as natives to explore whether the pattern differ...
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