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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
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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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 … the European Youth Guarantee, which is underfinanced, but also the introduction of better links between the education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113864
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803590
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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 …. Whether youth successfully make transitions to formal jobs, embark on such transitions and fail, or pursue a traditional route …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119232
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A neglected determinant of eating behaviors : relative age
Fumarco, Luca; Hartmann, Sven Alfred; Principe, Francesco - 2024
This study investigates a neglected determinant of adolescents' dietary behaviors: the within-class age difference, in isolation from confounding factors (e.g., absolute age, season-of-birth, and countries' specific characteristics, such as expected age at school start). We study a multi-country...
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Home computer ownership and educational outcomes of adolescents in Greece
Djinovic, Vladana; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2022
In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329788
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Parental unemployment and adolescents' academic performance
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades. The study utilised panel data from the same upper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541650
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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities
Bonacini, Luca; Murat, Marina - 2021
By using PISA 2018 data, we investigate the associations between digital divides and educational inequalities in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. We find strong and significant cognitive losses of students lacking the resources needed to learn remotely; everything else...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694496
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Stuck at a crossroads? : the duration of the Italian school-to-work transition
Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2020
Purpose - There is a long period from completing studies to finding a permanent or temporary (but at least satisfactory) job in all European countries, especially in Mediterranean countries, including Italy. This paper aims to study the determinants of this duration and measure them, for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241808
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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities
Murat, Marina; Bonacini, Luca - 2020
School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291161