find much scope for improving the design of key labor market institutions-including collective bargaining and employment …Raising South Africa's low employment rate to levels seen in emerging market or advanced economy peers could raise GDP …

programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into … employment should be focused to ensure maximum impact in addressing the problem of low youth employment in South Africa. Given … employment in South Africa with a significantly large sample size. …

This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By …-, gender-, and sector-specific employment intensities to growth. Our study examines the ability of growth in different sectors … to generate total employment opportunities. Results show that regardless of gender or age, the employment growth is …

The integration of active labour market policies within income support schemes - such as unemployment insurance and …

questions on the determinants of firms' labor demand, unemployed individuals' job search behavior and the state's role in …

Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers … datasets statistically and economically significant employment impacts are observed. Most of the evidence suggests that the 2 …-2.4 weeks of increased employment resulted from an aggregate reduction in those not in the labour force, with at most a modest …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … had minimal effects on employment and earnings; these programs mainly induced the early exit of participants. The fourth … increased employment and earnings. Both early participant exits and effective job counseling underlie these impacts. We conclude …