the Caribbean, with a view to building stronger youth policies in the region. The youth population must be included in …

The paper starts by presenting some stylised facts on youth unemployment over the last two decades, both at the euro … area and the country level. It shows that despite declining considerably over the last few years, youth unemployment has … relationship between the share of young people in the total population and the youth unemployment rate, i.e. the smaller the share …

Reducing youth unemployment and generating more and better youth employment opportunities are key policy challenges … worldwide. Active labor market programs for disadvantaged youth may be an effective tool in such cases, but the results have … youth intervention program is comprehensiveness, comprising multiple targeted components, including jobsearch assistance …

is of itself linked to mental and physical ill-health. There is also a substantial body of evidence which links youth … people and for society as a whole; however, equally important, the detrimental consequences of youth unemployment are largely … also becoming a significant issue. This paper looks at recent trends in youth unemployment and joblessness and seeks to …

evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of fighting youth unemployment using results from a randomised controlled trial … findings are relatively unfavourable in the sense that further intensification of an already quite intensive effort for youth …

This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study … whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth unemployment rates increased due to an increase … in youth wages relative to adult wages. To anticipate our results, we find that the youth unemployment rates increased …