The number young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has been rising since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis in 2008. This article contributes to the discussion about the reduction of the NEET rate by addressing the questions: Which structural factors can...

This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By applying a non-linear panel specification of Okun's first-difference equation on EU-28 countries for 1995-2019, we estimate age-, gender-, and sector-specific employment...

Financial sector development has been identified by financial economists as a veritable way of empowering the poor thereby paving the way for enabling them to become employed and possibly serve as economic agents of change. This study empirically investigates the relationship between financial...