Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on … the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …