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This working paper: (i) describes recent labour market trends; (ii) analyzes how young people are experiencing a double employment crisis as a result of the demographic phenomenon known as the ‘youth bulge,' which aggravates the already low demand for labour during the economic downturn; (iii)...
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of …
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A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper …
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Youth unemployment in Uganda increased from 12.7% in 2012/13 to 13.3 in 2016/17, despite a decline in the overall … national unemployment rate from 11.1% to 9.2%. This poses serious development challenges, particularly to the ongoing efforts …, residence, and age determine youth unemployment in Uganda. Using recent data from the Uganda National Household Survey 2016 …
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In spring 2013, youth unemployment in the EU peaked and then declined sharply. Yet at least one in every six members of … the economically active population between age 15 and 24 in the EU is still unemployed, and the unemployment rate among … labor market has developed since 2013. The decline in unemployment was primarily caused both by a drop in the number of …
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Albania and North Macedonia, as many countries in South-Eastern Europe, struggle with youth unemployment which is … unemployment through two case studies: Luigj Gurakuqi (LG) the University of Shkodra in Albania and South-East European (SEE … logistic regression analysis is used to estimate the correlation between employment/unemployment and the various explanatory …
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This paper assesses the impact of the crisis on the NEET rate and on the youth unemployment rate (YUR) of the EU …
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Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether these...
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The paper investigates Scandinavian countries and its respective male and female youth unemployment rates. Okun's law …
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The unemployment rates, especially youth unemployment rates, increased in various countries of Europe over the last … years. This paper examines gender-specific youth unemployment developments in Germany and Poland with Okun's law to test the …
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