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Young people between education and the labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2021

-to-work transition (STWT). The aim is to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy on the careers of individuals aged 15-34. We … significantly longer STWT duration compared to other EU countries, particularly for females and residents in the South of Italy. In … rigorous estimation and analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the carriers of young individuals in Italy, which has not yet …

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Skills and youth entrepreneurship in Africa : analysis with evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana; Ncube, Mthuli; Bicaba, Zorobabel - 2014

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between...

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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers

Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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Career consequences of firm heterogeneity for young workers : first job and firm size

Arellano-Bover, Jaime - 2020

I study the long-term effects of landing a first job at a large firm versus a small one using Spanish social security data. Size could be a relevant employer attribute for inexperienced workers since large firms are associated with greater training, higher wages, and enhanced productivity. The...

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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 …

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...

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No education, no good jobs? : Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Pagés, Carmen (contributor); Stampini, Marco (contributor) - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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The transition to self-employment and perceived skill-mismatches: panel data evidence from eleven EU countries

Albiol Sánchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel … - 2020

Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being skill-mismatched in comparison with salaried employees. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the transition from salaried employment to...

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Disposable workforce in Italy

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2010

This paper explores the "disposable" patterns of workforce utilization in Italy, well under way before the cyclical …

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The duration of the school-to-work transition in Italy and in other European countries: a flexible baseline hazard interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2021

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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