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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 … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …
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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education : a regression discontinuity analysis
Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2021
youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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The parental home as labor market insurance for young Greeks during the crisis
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Pantalidou, Maria - 2017
Labor market conditions in Greece have severely deteriorated during the crisis, affecting youths the most. Using the Greek crisis as a case-study, this paper examines the role of the family as a social safety net for its young members. Specifically, we test the relationship between youth labor...
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2023
total one never is, if education is available, and the disutility of child labour can be compensated by the expected utility … self-enforcing, or actually counterproductive. If the government wants to re- duce child labour and raise education to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340123
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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017
Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted transition from school to work and thus into adulthood. This paper investigates how labor market insertion has been evolving over time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119232
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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
Irregular migration became an alarming issue over the last decade for both developed and developing countries. A prevailing assumption in migration policy is that labor market and institutional characteristics play a crucial role in pushing people to leave their home countries in search for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129759
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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market
Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde - 2024
We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...
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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)
Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael - 2017
We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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The evolution of labor market disparities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic men : 1970-2019
Kospentaris, Ioannis; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023
, while the earnings disparity increases with education. Comparing Hispanic immigrants with natives reveals much of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479664
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A North-South agent based model of segmented labour markets : the role of education and trade asymmetries
Fanti, Lucrezia; Pereira, Marcelo C.; Virgillito, Maria … - 2023
of the education level they are able to provide. Education is modeled as a national-level policy differently targeting … in terms of both requested education level and offered wages. To address the role of trade and education, we experiment … with different education-policy and trade settings. Ultimately, we are interested in understanding the coupling effects of …
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