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Assessing the Performance of School-to-Work Transition Regimes in the EU

Hadjivassiliou, Kari P; Tassinari, Arianna; Eichhorst, … - 2016

The Great Recession that has engulfed Europe since 2008 has had a profound impact on the process of young people's school-to-work (STW) transition. Countries' institutional configurations considerably matter in shaping the structure of young people's STW transitions and mediating the impact of...

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Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

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Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency: mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and raising productivity

Neumark, David - 2008

The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...

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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence—often termed the “forgotten half” in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW...

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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity

Neumark, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822377

Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial log it models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700913

Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans

Corinth, Kevin; Larrimore, Jeff - 2024

Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real median household income that was 18 percent higher than that of the … progress for Generation X and Millennials is due to their stalled growth in work hours - holding work hours constant, they … Millennials under age 30 has remained robust as well, although their income growth largely results from higher reliance on their …

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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan - 2015

We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created discontinuities in raises, where workers earning within 1 cent of each other received new wages that...

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Wage Dispersion and Search Behavior

Hall, Robert; Mueller, Andreas I. - 2015

We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the job-seekers made. From the data and the model, we identify the distributions of four key variables:...

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On the Job Search and Business Cycles

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2018

We propose a highly tractable way of analyzing business cycles in an environment with random job search both off- and and on-the-job (OJS). Ex post heterogeneity in productivity across jobs generates a job ladder. Firms Bertrand-compete for employed workers, as in the Sequential Auctions...

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