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Not dissimilar to many other countries, migration in Russia has a pronounced age-dependent pattern with the peak … interregional migration in Russia. The regions in the European part of the country have a much higher chance to attract migrants at …
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The aim of this paper is to illustrate how gaining a greater understanding of young people's values can contribute to the design of more effective educational policies in urban marginal neighbhourhoods using the capability approach as a normative framework of analysis. It is based on fieldwork...
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We study the three-year impact of a private tuition-free middle school on the academic outcomes of poor students. Several features of the treatment school fit with innovative paradigms that have delivered successful outcomes in poor urban areas. Our research design exploits the excess of...
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life course of this and future generations of youth. Andy Green’s controversial manifesto for intergenerational equity …
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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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We use a randomized controlled trial to examine the short- and mid-term impacts of a best-practice training program on (non-)employment outcomes in Ghana. Overall the program did not affect core labor market outcomes at the extensive (employment) and intensive (hours of work, income) margin, but...
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Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the … European countries by means of an econometric model with feedback effects. Results show that youth poverty genuine state … in Scandinavian countries, however, time in economic hardship does not last long. In Southern Europe, instead, youth tend …
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Poverty has been ongoing for many years and still continues to exist in almost all countries around the globe. The objective of alleviating poverty in many nations therefore, remains a significant issue. To comprehend the risks posed by the issue of poverty, its dimension and the process by...
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Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the … European countries by means of an econometric model with feedback effects. Results show that youth poverty genuine state … in Scandinavian countries, however, time in economic hardship does not last long. In Southern Europe, instead, youth tend …
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and occupation determine the probability of youth to be out of the labour market in six Sub-Saharan Africa countries. We … Malawi and Uganda, while the major challenges with getting the youth onto the labour market are still in Liberia even after …
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