with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective … education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and …

with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective … education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and …

people and recent trends therein, along with the institutions that regulate youth education, training and employment. The … education, and apprenticeship - to improve youth outcomes is discussed, drawing on national evaluation literatures. Evidence of …

, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs, raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics …

opportunities, the impact has fallen disproportionately on the quality of employment rather than on the number of jobs. Slower …-income countries and in the low-income countries. Whereas the economic downturn has threatened recent progress in enhancing employment …

difference between men and women: while many male workers took up informal employment, most female workers dropped out of the … search or employment. Our findings suggest that bridging the gap between rural youths and urban formal labour markets …

to guide their design in developing countries. The evidence suggests that, if the goal is only to create jobs, wage … process build skills and improve their employability. If these "learning" effects are large enough, the social benefits of …

poor-quality jobs. Policymakers intuitively resort to upgrading worker skills as a workforce response to the pandemic …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …