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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...
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This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We …
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This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...
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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 … the European Youth Guarantee, which is underfinanced, but also the introduction of better links between the education …
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This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent graduation cohorts between 2005 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....
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We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor … locking the youth who get off to a bad start into low-wage jobs. …
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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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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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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 …. Whether youth successfully make transitions to formal jobs, embark on such transitions and fail, or pursue a traditional route …
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