sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid … growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused on the pursuit of formal credentials rather than productive skills …

minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

Despite the fast growth in the Estonian economy, unemployment has remained high for extended periods of time. This … paper analyses and quantifies the mismatch between registered unemployment and vacancies and how it has contributed to … unemployment in the Estonian labour market at the (county) regional, occupational, and industrial levels for the time span 2011 …

segmentation. -- Labor mobility ; segmentation ; barriers to entry ; skills ; informal jobs ; Latin America ; transition economies …

to distinguish between different kinds of skills and tasks in order to understand the recent occupational structure … codifiable tasks (Autor, Levy, and Murnane, 2003). -- skills ; tasks ; occupations ; job security …