In almost all developed countries there has been substantial growth in university education over the last half …-century. This growth has raised concerns that the benefits of university education are declining and that university education is … education or direct entry to the labour market may be more appropriate. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of …

unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed … effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns … for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it …

A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper … analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional definition of "youth" is the 16-24 age … youth. There are also grounds for examining why females seem to fare worse than males in the Greek labour market. The …