. -- vocational education and training ; dual vocational training ; youth employment ; youth unemployment … an important driver of differential labor market situation of youth. Based on our analysis we argue in favor of …

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We …

In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employment rate of apprentices is about … apprentices or vocational students. This result indicates that the higher employment rate of apprentices does not rely, in the … almost no difference between the probability of getting a callback from employers for unemployed youth formerly either …

We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life … public lottery. We rely on administrative data on formal employment, employment spells and earnings, to establish the effects … gains of about 8 percentage points in formal employment in the short term (about 32% higher than the control group …

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to … employment likelihood relative to GHS degree. However, once we include town-specific socio-economic variables to control for … education, employment, and business activity levels in the town, the IV estimates get much smaller and become statistically …

compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …

constructed around expressive arts. Using a randomized assignment of favela youth into program and control groups, we look at the … short-run treatment effects on a comprehensive set of outcomes including employment and earnings as well as measures of … personality traits and risk behavior. We find positive short-run employment and earnings impacts five months after the program …

This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program … trajectories of young people - and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first experimental long-term evaluation of a youth …-up. Our empirical findings document significant impacts on the formality of employment, particularly for men, and impacts for …

We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …

We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor … locking the youth who get off to a bad start into low-wage jobs. …