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Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of … economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth …
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in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …
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We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...
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skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …
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We study the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past … roles of state dependence, returns to experience, and heterogeneity in driving crime and enrollment decisions among youth … temporarily keep youth away from crime, can have important and lasting effects even if criminal experience has already accumulated. …
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afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to … specifically targeted to youth unemployed in bad times. One important implication of our findings is that generic labour market …
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Many rights are conferred on Dutch youth at ages 16 and 18. Using national register data for all reported …
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