Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, especially given the region’s young population. The barriers young people face stem both from skills deficiencies and from weak fundamentals that constrain job creation more generally in the region. Employment...

This paper explores the potential of an approach suggested by Manski of obtaining nonparametric bounds for treatment effects in evaluation studies without knowledge of the participation process. The practical concern is the effects of continuous vocational training in East Germany. The empirical...

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has remained at a high level relative to other age groups in...

Der Bericht beleuchtet die Situation der Frauen am hessischen Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsmarkt für das Jahr 2007, wie er sich in Daten aus der Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit für Beschäftigung, Erwerbstätigkeit, Arbeitslosigkeit und Teilnahme an aktiven arbeitsmarktpolitischen...