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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 … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today … attainment. Social class is playing an increasing role in determining the success of the transition from school to work in Egypt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119232
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The Arab Spring and the employability of youth : early evidence from Egypt
Selwaness, Irene; Roushdy, Rania - 2017
and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of those who left school after the January 25th … 2011 revolution to that of those who graduated before 2011. Using recent data from the 2014 Survey of Young People in Egypt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110543
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140024
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Getting it right : youth employment policy within the EU
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of factors that should be addressed more vigorously, starting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113864
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Assessing the impact of off- and on-the-job training on employment outcomes : a counterfactual evaluation of the PIPOL program
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2019
This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the employment integration of benefit recipients. To address the issue, we have resorted to a counterfactual approach with data from two main sources: the program administration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161470
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths - beware of spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113803
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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life
Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259197
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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-)equality : how big is the glass ceilings for mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164105
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Female labor force participation in five selected MENA countries : an age-period-cohort analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysıt - 2020
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
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