unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that …This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events …

unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth …

unemployment rates in Africa. The paper first documents the various labor market disadvantages faced by the Swazi youth, such as … market, the paper examines the barriers to job creation and youth entrepreneurship. It concludes with experiences of other … youth employment challenges in Swaziland, a small, land-locked, middle-income country with one of the highest youth …

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. …

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 …

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In … principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … training systems. To tackle the Keynesian and neoclassical components of unemployment, instead, it is vital to rethink the …

The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …

have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …

mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed … entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

variables, i.e. sex, age, and education)? And given the personal characteristics and attitudes, how does the regional … 'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …