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, but its youth unemployment is one of the highest in the world. To help understand this duality, we employ synthetic panels … from repeated household surveys for LA6 countries from 1990-2018 to investigate the determinants of the youth …
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reforms would primarily benefit disadvantaged groups such as youth …
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The crisis has intensified what was previously a chronic unemployment problem in Europe; youth unemployment is now at … unprecedented highs in some European countries. This paper assesses the main drivers of youth unemployment in Europe. It finds that … much of the increase in youth unemployment rates during the crisis can be explained by output dynamics and the greater …
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growth. The paper shows the benefits of comprehensive policy reforms aimed at increasing labor force participation and youth …
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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro dataset with over ten million individuals surveyed between...
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elderly labor force participation and youth unemployment. From a theoretical point of view, there is no convincing argument …
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different generations. At present, youth and elderly are particularly vulnerable to poverty relative to adults in their middle … years. Broad-based policies should aim to foster youth integration into the labor market and ensure adequate income and …
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This paper uses a life-cycle framework to document new stylized facts about the nexus between job polarization and earnings inequality. Using quarterly labor force data for the UK over the period 2000-2018, we find clear life-cycle profiles in the probability of being employed within each...
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New firm formation is a critical driver of job creation, and an important contributor to the responsiveness of the economy to aggregate shocks. In this paper we examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise due to an increase in local...
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