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Unintended consequences of youth entrepreneurship programs : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2023
The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429359
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Unintended consequences of youth entrepreneurship programs : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2023
The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370335
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Gender attitudes and occupational aspirations in Germany : are young men prepared for the jobs of the future?
Chesters, Jenny - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 37 (2023) 3, pp. 571-587
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014317500
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Employment Status by Race, Gender, High School Curriculum & Special Need Classification Among US Youth
Jeon, Ki Seok; Kern, Angela F.; Passmore, David - 2010
National Longitudinal Study Youth 1997 (NLSY97) was the primary source of information. The group of black, Hispanic & other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194048
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What does a high school diploma get you? : employment, race, and the transition to adulthood
McDaniel, Marla; Kuehn, Daniel - In: The review of black political economy 40 (2013) 4, pp. 371-399
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345426
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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills (Families, children and human capital formation)
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 435-462
This article uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to estimate the relationship between different types of skills and performance of young adults. While we follow the literature and consider grades in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466892
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Connecting high school dropouts to employment and education : an impact study of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program
Millenky, Megan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-17
This paper presents findings from the multi-year, random assignment study of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program … (NGYCP), an intensive residential program for high school dropouts. The "second chance" program gives youth an opportunity to … study sample includes 1173 youth, ages 16-18, from ten program sites across the USA. Positive impacts on employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522277
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Do high school STEM courses prepare non-college bound youth for jobs in the STEM economy?
Bozick, Robert; Srinivasan, Sinduja; Gottfried, Michael A. - In: Education economics 25 (2017) 3, pp. 234-250
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764413
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Why do some young adults not graduate from upper secondary school? : on the importance of signals of labour market failure
Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016
In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors associated with not graduating from upper secondary school at age 21. Our hypothesis is that if a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457395
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Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure
Gustafsson, Björn - 2016
In high-income countries, not completing secondary school often entails a high risk of social exclusion. Using data on young adults born in 1985 that grew up in metropolitan Sweden, we study factors associated with not graduating from upper secondary school at age 21. Our hypothesis is that if a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993935