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support program for disadvantaged youth living in the largest public housing project in Toronto. The program, called Pathways …, mischief, other traffic offenses and Youth Criminal Justice Act offenses. …
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treatment completion for youth participants in Peru. -- training ; quality ; dropouts ; propensity scores ; dose …
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with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
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. In turn, this contributes to make regional unemployment persistent. -- youth unemployment ; education ; heckprobit …
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Education choices are made based on the expected returns to schooling. If individuals are badly informed, they may make inefficient choices. We directly elicit young people's subjective expectations at the age of 14-15 about earnings under different educational scenarios and find these predict...
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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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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. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …
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This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
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Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...
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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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