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treatment completion for youth participants in Peru …
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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...
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Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this … question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's long-term structural changes, induced primarily … examine the role of educational upgrading on the labor-market outcomes of youth between the ages of 25 and 29, using six waves …
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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,...
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This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...
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While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …
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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...
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
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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 … of youth cohort size is more pronounced in the labour markets of metropolitan regions. These results suggest an upward …
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This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on high school enrollment rates of native youth in Turkey. Syrian … influence native youth's school enrollment likelihood negatively through educational experience. But, at the same time, they can ….7-3.6 percentage points among native youth in refugee-receiving regions. Furthermore, a one-percentage point increase in the refugee …
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