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By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...
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absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …
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This paper analyzes the school enrollment and labor supply decisions of teenagers and young adults as jointly deter-mined outcomes. The empirical results are based on an application of discrete multivariate analysis to a sample taken from the Survey of Income and Education. Higher relative wage...
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This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
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While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the … specification choices. In addition to providing estimates of the effect of minimum wage increases on aggregate employment and …
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. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …
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hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a … generally not significant and do not support the initial hypothesis. However, the employment probability of a youth is …
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unemployment are developed by treating school enrollment and military service as equivalent to employment. In addition, several … employment-to-population ratio measures are explored. Third, equations for employment, unemployment, schooling and a residual … puzzling results. Although black male unemployment rates are growing, and employment rates are declining, relative wages and …
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business cycle effects, we analyze the determinants of re-employment probabilities of young workers from 1978-1989. We find … change individuals' positions within the queue of job seekers but will probably have a more limited impact on the overall re-employment … probability. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does being in a long spell of non-employment …
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effects of exogenous changes in potential youth labor supply on youth employment and unemployment rates using a panel data set … cohort size on employment rates of youths. We also find some evidence, though statistically weak, that labor market … institutions that decrease flexibility lead to sharper responses of youth unemployment and employment rates to fluctuations in …
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