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One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...
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One of the most claimed links in the health and education literature is that education prevents from the risk of overweight, and the negative link between education and BMI is up to now out of questioning. More educated adults tend to have lower body mass index (BMI) and a lower risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290653
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This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing countries (Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Iran, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria) where the ILO carried out the first wave of School-to-Work Transition survey. We observe different...
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This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing countries (Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Iran, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria) where the ILO carried out the first wave of School-to-Work Transition survey. We observe different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021956
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
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We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500403
with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
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with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113803
This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options … currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of … the European Youth Guarantee, which is underfinanced, but also the introduction of better links between the education …
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