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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 …
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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 …
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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,...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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Postwar societies are high-risk contexts for youth violence. Nevertheless, not all postwar societies are equally … of reconstruction after war's end are identified as major intervening variables that explain the variations in youth …
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Academic literature on foreign exchange market intervention in emerging market countries has grown in recent years. Until now, existing studies have ignored the possible feature of time varying motives and impact effects for/of interventions as well as the relationship to underlying economic and...
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At the time of Argentina's greenhouse gases emissions reduction voluntary commitment, most of the articles on intensity … targets had not been published. The aim of this paper is to (re)discuss briefly the proposal made by Argentina taking into …
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This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the Argentine competition law and the way in which it has been enforced in several important antitrust cases. We begin with a section that introduces the evolution of the law, followed by another section about the basic economic and legal...
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