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Youth employment and skills development in The Gambia
Lahire, Nathalie; Johanson, Richard; Wilcox, Ryoko Tomita - 2011
Introduction: Macroeconomic trends. Poverty profile -- Overview of youth employment and training: Introduction. Youth involvement in the labor market. Youth unemployment and joblessness. Determinants of youth employment outcomes. Incidence of training. Human capital levels and youth labor market...
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Mobilität und Wanderung der Arbeitnehmer in der Europäischen Union und ihre besonderen Auswirkungen auf die Jugend
Tassinopoulos, Alexandros; Werner, Heinz; Kristensen, Søren - 1998 - 1. Aufl.
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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014
workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …
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What makes millennials happy in their workplace?
Yap, Wei Meng; Badri, Siti Khadijah Zainal - In: Asian Academy of Management journal : AAMJ 25 (2020) 1, pp. 103-121
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Youth unemployment in Mediterranean countries
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska - 2014
In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is...
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...
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The success of learnerships? : lessons from South Africa's training and education programme
Rankin, Neil; Roberts, Gareth; Schöer, Volker - 2014
Vocational training programmes, like South Africa's learnership programme, which combine classroom learning and on-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth unemployment. This paper uses a longitudinal...
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Mentoring disadvantaged youths during school-to-work transition : evidence from Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Nielen, Sebastian - 2016
In the German school and vocational education systems, there is a wide range of support measures during school-to-work transition. We analyze a novel program providing mentoring to low-achieving school leavers. The program bridges different stages and different institutional systems in secondary...
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Impact of COVID-19 crisis on rural youth : evidence from a panel survey and an experiment
Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Bhatiya, Apurav Yash; Imbert, Clément - 2021
This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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