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Ethnic Minority Youths in the Labour Markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Niknami, Susan - 2019
controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870208
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers
Averett, Susan L. - 2016
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983035
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2023
We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points...
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults : An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Hernaes, Oeystein - 2018
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926704
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Do Reemployment Programs for the Unemployed Work for Youth? Evidence from the Great Recession in the United States
Michaelides, Marios - 2020
We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … that policymakers should require job counseling for youth UI recipients during recessions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831978
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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917096
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Decision to Emigrate Amongst the Youth in Lebanon
Dibeh, Ghassan - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964999
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Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men
Williams, Jenny - 2017
We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965004
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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa : Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity
Nagler, Paula - 2014
Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044910
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Euro, Crisis and Unemployment : Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
Ghoshray, Atanu - 2016
afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990858