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We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … had minimal effects on employment and earnings; these programs mainly induced the early exit of participants. The fourth … increased employment and earnings. Both early participant exits and effective job counseling underlie these impacts. We conclude …
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This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In … principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … the entire school-to-work transition system, involving not only public employment services, but also educational and …
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unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that …This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events …
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Natural experiments provide explicit and robust identifying assumptions for the estimation of treatment effects. Yet their use for policy design is often limited by the difficulty in extrapolating on the basis of reduced-form estimates of policy effects. On the contrary, structural models allow...
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prediction of our model, this evidence reveals an important role of parents in mediating the impact of neighborhoods on youth …
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This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of … people aged 15 to 29 from the year 2016. The aim of the paper is to identify the profile of youth's propensity to emigrate … from Lebanon. The empirical results indicate that youth from non-wealthy backgrounds living in smaller dwellings have a …
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compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
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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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-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high school graduates … accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, they substitute private for public and self-employment; thus, overall … employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent gains emerge. Moreover, the …
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We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by −0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share …
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