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Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …
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Youth unemployment and underemployment are serious concerns in sub-Saharan Africa, especially given the region’s young … population. The barriers young people face stem both from skills deficiencies and from weak fundamentals that constrain job … not adequately reflect the reality that most young people work in agriculture, household enterprises, and self …
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This paper presents an average treatment effect analysis of Spain’s furlough program during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2020 labour force quarterly microdata, we construct a counterfactual made of comparable nonfurloughed individuals who lost their jobs and apply propensity score...
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Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on...
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Slovakia who were registered in 2011. All of the programmes facilitate gaining work experience and share a comparable design …
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, but at the same time, firms are expected to develop training programmes to improve the professional skills of youth. This … skills upon graduation. Such contracts incentivise employment creation, as firms benefit from lower wages and tax reductions …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in improving labour market outcomes, especially of low-skilled individuals, by means of a pooled cross-country and time series database for 31 advanced countries during the period 1985–2010. The analysis includes...
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This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...
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the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This …This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast … study makes the survey available to the research community as a Scientific Use File by explaining the development, structure …
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