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Teenage Motherhood and Long-run Outcomes in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv; Worku, Seble - 2007
Teenage motherhood is very high in South Africa. In 2001, 55 per thousand African South African women and 82 per thousand Coloured South African women were teenage mothers as compared to 8 among Indian South Africans and 3 among White South African women. In this paper we use the South African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325552
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Non-pecuniary Work Incentive and Labor Supply
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Akao, Ken-Ichi - 2006
Recognizing that people value employment not only to earn income to satisfy their consumption needs, but also as a means to gain socio-psychological (nonpecuniary) benefits, we show that once nonpecuniary work incentives are incorporated into standard labor supply theory, (i) the wage rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312270
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Civic and political engagement among young adults in Ireland
Laurence, James; Smyth, Emer - 2023
International research has shown that civic engagement, that is, volunteering in local services, can benefit both young people and their communities, while political engagement can strengthen a society's democratic culture. The Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures (2019) policy framework highlights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550283
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SOEP-IS 2020: Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2020 des Bonn Intervention Panel
Rathje, Martin; Glemser, Axel - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549989
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Connecting the Disconnected: Improving Education and Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged Youth
Edelman, Peter B.; Holzer, Harry J. - 2013
In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331417
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Might not be a tomorrow: a multi-methods approach to anticipated early death and youth crime
Brezina, Timothy; Tekin, Erdal; Topalli, Volkan - 2008
factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268990
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Children and parents time use: empirical evidence on investment in human capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2008
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269286
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The Hungarian Longitudinal Growth Study: From birth to the age of 18 years
Joubert, Kálmán; Gyenis, Gyula - 2016
This Working Paper presents the main results of the 'Hungarian Longitudinal Growth Study'. It was the first longitudinal, nationally representative research programme in Hungary that focused on children aged between birth and 18 years of age; the number of subjects was 2,984 boys and 2,701 girls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316667
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Youth and the crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe
Coppola, Gianluigi (contributor);  … - 2016
The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in youth labour markets in Europe. This timely book deals with a … youth unemployment and young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) - the direct consequences of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615510
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The transition to Post-industrial BMI values among US children
Komlos, John; Breitfelder, Ariane; Sunder, Marco - 2008
Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence of longitudinal data. Our object is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427538