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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain

Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...

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Education and skill mismatches among immigrants : the impact of host language proficiency

Budría, Santiago; Ibarreta, Carlos Martínez de - In: Economics of education review 84 (2021), pp. 1-18

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The role of human capital and technological change in overeducation

Oliveira, M. Mendes de; Santos, Maria C.; Kiker, Billy … - In: Economics of education review 19 (2000) 2, pp. 199-206

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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2022

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows : Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2019

This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...

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Impact of household factors on youth's school decisions in Thailand

Tharmmapornphilas, Rubkwan - In: Economics of education review 37 (2013), pp. 258-272

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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment

Brown, Charles - 2010

While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...

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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment

Brown, Charles; Gilroy, Curtis; Kohen, Andrew I. - 2021

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The Effects of Youth Employment : Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Gelber, Alexander - 2015

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment Over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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