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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
, are pushed into employment by the pandemic. This frequently comes at the expense of their education, hinting at youth …
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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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Labor market and institutional drivers of youth irregular migration : evidence from the MENA region
Dibeh, Ghassan; Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid - 2018
decision to migrate irregularly amongst the youth in the MENA region and that the quality of institutions matters. In addition …
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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498539
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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...
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Ethnic minority youths in the labour markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Niknami, Susan; Schröder, Lena; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2019
controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …
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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes
Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019
The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...
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The educational upgrading of Japanese youth, 1982 - 2007 : are all Japanese youth ready for structural reforms?
Arai, Yoichi; Ichimura, Hidehiko; Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2015
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this … question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's long-term structural changes, induced primarily … examine the role of educational upgrading on the labor-market outcomes of youth between the ages of 25 and 29, using six waves …
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The jobs that youth want and the support they need to get them : evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Kenya
Elzir Assy, Angela; Ribeiro, Tiago; Robalino Aguirre, … - 2019
This paper presents the main results of three Discrete Choice Experiments designed to estimate youth preferences for … took place in urban areas in Kenya. We find that youth, in general, prefer to work in jobs that have the attributes of … youth demand to facilitate access to wage employment include jobs search assistance and training on soft-skills, followed by …
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