sanctions for young unemployed welfare recipients based on German administrative data. The German welfare system is particularly …

This paper estimates the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on job finding rates and entry level wages for … unemployed high school leavers. Up to year 2007, Swedish high school-students who became unemployed shortly after graduation were … entitled to UI-benefits once they became 20 years of age. Therefore, the start of an unemployment spell relative to the 20:th …

mix to enhance the employability of the work disabled. Using rich longitudinal data, we follow unemployed young adults …. We follow these individuals up to four years after the start of unemployment. Our results indicate that, in spite of …. Having participated in workplace related programmes about doubles the likelihood of entering regular employment or education …

We study the anatomy of responses to a major activation programme targeted at unemployed youth, introduced in Sweden in …

We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm … obtaining more qualified and fulltime employment after high school graduation. We argue that receiving a program job leads to …

This is a study of the link between taxes and youth self-employment, using a Swedish reform implemented in 2007 …–09 which suddenly made the payroll tax and the self-employment tax vary by age. The results suggest that youth self-employment … on income is also studied. For those that are defined as self-employed, positive effects on income from self-employment …