women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …

education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …

sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid …

By conventional statistics, youth unemployment seems to be quite moderate in Korea: 'only' 9.6 percent of the 'active …' youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … the perspective of intergenerational risk sharing Korea's youth unemployment rate is 4.6 times higher than the …

minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

incentives as it reduces the attractiveness of remaining a low-educated worker. However, unemployment also increases …

sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low …