Reducing Youth Unemployment is going to be one of the most important goals of nations in the coming decade. The International Labour Organization estimates that out of the 1 billion youth, 201 million are unemployed. The UN has adopted reducing unemployment as Goal number 8 in the Millennium...

The share of the U.S. population that receives business income has increased substantially in recent decades. At the same time, worker hire and separation rates declined, with worrying implications for productivity and wage growth. In this paper, we explore the relationship between business...

The purpose of this study is to make a brief overview and analysis of the unemployment rate among young people in the labour market in Bulgaria. The programs and measures that dictate the conditions of the Bulgarian labour market, according to the Employment Promotion Law and the National...

Since the outbreak of the recent financial crisis we have experienced some of the highest rates of youth unemployment in history. If we want to avoid branding the young people as a “Lost Generation”, we need to act quickly. One important active labor market strategy to solve the youth...

We examine an emerging phenomenon that talented employees leave successful entrepreneurial firms to join less mature ones. Using a unique person-level dataset and a comprehensive sample of private firms from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that these “entrepreneurial diffusers”, by...