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This paper provides new cross-country evidence on the impact of cognitive skills, as measured by international achievement tests, on subsequent youth employment outcomes. In our initial analysis, we find that high average scores are strongly associated with increases in school enrollment and...
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Youth not in education, employment, or training (NEET) refers to the most vulnerable group in the transition from school to work. While much research focuses on institutional factors behind the NEET incidence, the current study approaches the problem of the NEET youth from the perspective of...
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This paper provides both descriptive and empirical evidence about the main youth labour market problems in Spain. Using … the experiences of other EU economies as a benchmark, we document the performance of Spain as regards a wide set of youth … explain the difficulties faced by the Spanish youth labour market (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/Spain). …
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Spain, the fourth largest eurozone economy, was hit particularly hard by the Great Recession, which made its chronic …
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