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afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …
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-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program …
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This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We …-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …
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One of the strongest stylized facts of the transition is also one of the most unexpected: after 1989 Central and Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis posits that the prospect of membership in the European...
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Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...
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We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Retrospective data from the SHARELIFE survey are used to reconstruct labour market experiences across the threshold...
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"We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...
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"Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
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This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which in the last two decades experienced radical economic and institutional transformations. Based...
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raised a series of challenges. Youth unemployment and joblessness have emerged as serious problems with the potentially very … policies affecting youth employment and unemployment and section concludes identifying key issues and areas where action is … needed and where it is likely to be effective. -- youth labour markets ; Europe and Central Asia ; active labour market …
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