Active labour market policy (ALMP) is widely used in European countries to reduce youth unemployment and help young … novel data, this thesis argues that spending on youth ALMP is influenced by other factors than ALMP for older people … of youth ALMPs. This theory is then tested using a mixed-method approach combining a quantitative analysis of public …

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 …

Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios – PNAD), 1995-2015, to describe youth condition according …