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controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …
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This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …
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The housing and labor market crises of the late 2000s left few families and individuals unscathed. In the wake of these events, evidence points to more "doubling-up" of families in the same household. To what extent have these crises affected individuals' decisions to live independently? What...
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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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Every year millions of young adults join the labor market in Africa. This paper uses the Jobs of the World Database to compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are similar at similar levels of development but young...
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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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We analyse the distribution and the flows between different types of employment (self-employment, temporary, and permanent), unemployment, education, and other types of inactivity, with particular focus on the duration of the school-to-work transition (STWT). The aim is to assess the impact of...
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In this paper, I develop a measure of host country experience, which I call "relative time of arrival," to explore differences between first- and second-generation immigrants. This measure is finer than immigrant generation and expands on the widely used measures of years since migration and age...
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This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics literature and discusses their extension in the analysis of the causes and effects of immigrants'...
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The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy...
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