destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and … downturns have more adverse implications for vulnerable segments of the population such as youth. As presented in this paper … rising unemployment rates, which persist long after the economy is growing again. In the wake of the present downturn, young …

This paper considers the issue of unemployment one of the most pressing issues facing the UK and other governments, as … unemployment among the young and other disadvantaged groups, is typical of past experience. The paper reviews past literature on … the causes of unemployment, arguing that the origin of the present difficulties lies with a collapse in demand rather than …

, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated. …

variables, i.e. sex, age, and education)? And given the personal characteristics and attitudes, how does the regional … 'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business …

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long …This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to …

entrepreneurship. We also show that participants hold remarkably accurate beliefs about the impacts of the treatments on occupational …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker's probability of being invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … unobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use information about past unemployment to sort workers …, but some evidence that they use contemporary unemployment to sort workers. The fact that employers do not seem to use past …

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 …

. In order for the continent to benefit from the 4IR more needs to be done to improve entrepreneurship and education. A … number of policy recommendations for 4IRcompatible entrepreneurship and education policies are made. …The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through …