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from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and data on local fast-food restaurant advertising on television from … number of youth exposed to fast-food advertising on television but would still result in non-trivial reductions in obesity …We examine the effects of fast-food restaurant advertising on television on the body composition of adolescents as …
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controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …
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The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...
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This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
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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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This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of … people aged 15 to 29 from the year 2016. The aim of the paper is to identify the profile of youth's propensity to emigrate … from Lebanon. The empirical results indicate that youth from non-wealthy backgrounds living in smaller dwellings have a …
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developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa … childhood socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas. RESULTS: We find that young … areas for both men and women. CONTRIBUTION: We contribute to the sparse literature on internal youth migration in developing …
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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … that policymakers should require job counseling for youth UI recipients during recessions. …
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Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system …
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of … youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is also among the highest in the world. In this context, one of the … more obvious reactions of youth facing unmet aspirations in the labour market is migration. The objective of the paper is …
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