This paper evaluates the impact of a vocational training programme on the labour market outcomes of unemployed youth in … Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period 2014-2020, the largest action launched by the … European Union to reduce youth unemployment rate and to support young people aged between 15 and 29 who are not in education …

This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers … they provide a more accurate measure of the youth population in an actual labour market. Based on instrumental variables … estimation, we show that an increase in the youth share by one percentage point is predicted to decrease a young worker's wages …

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 …