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The work-to-school transition : job displacement and skill upgrading among young high school Dropouts

Bennett, Patrick - 2021

This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...

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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...

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Finding a job after unemployment : education as a moderator of unemployment scarring in Norway and German-speaking Switzerland

Shi, Lulu P; Di Stasio, Valentina - In: Socio-economic review 20 (2022) 3, pp. 1125-1149

regaining employment; this is not the case in Norway. We contribute to the unemployment scarring literature and to comparative …Using data collected with a factorial survey experiment in Norway and Switzerland, we analyze how employers react to … unemployment spells when screening job applications. Our focus is on whether unemployment scarring varies depending on the …

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L' entreprise et les jeunes en Europe : colloque des 25 et 26 juin 1987 à Paris

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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

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