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Inactive youth in sub-Saharan Africa : does inequality of opportunity matter?

Hussain, Mohammad Azhar; Awad, Atif - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

and occupation determine the probability of youth to be out of the labour market in six Sub-Saharan Africa countries. We … Malawi and Uganda, while the major challenges with getting the youth onto the labour market are still in Liberia even after …

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Do youth mentoring programs change the perspectives and improve the life opportunities of at-risk youth? : while most effects are positive, they tend to be modest and fade over tim...

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2014

recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on changing at-risk youth’s perspectives and providing opportunities for …

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Performance of young adults : the importance of different skills

Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2013

This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a novel measure for another type of skills: Performance...

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The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectations and occupational choice strategies

Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016 - This draft: September 22, 2016

A growing body of research suggests that, even after controlling for cognitive abilities, personality predicts economic success in later life. The learning environment at school focuses on knowledge and cognitive skills. The transmission of character skills, however, is not at the center of...

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A signal of diligence? : student work experience and later employment chances

Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015

We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium....

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Performance of Young Adults : The Importance of Different Skills

Falch, Torberg - 2013

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Working while Studying : Employment Premium or Penalty for Youth in Benin?

Dedehouanou, Senakpon F. A. - 2019

Most youth in developing countries leave school with only a general academic education level, slowing down their … transition to the labor market. We analyze whether work experience during school can help youth transition more easily to a first …, especially when combined with apprenticeships, but these results were significant only for men and youth who left school with at …

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The Causal Effect of Age at Migration on Youth Educational Attainment

Lemmermann, Dominique - 2018

We investigate the causal effect of age at migration on subsequent educational attainment in the destination country. To identify the causal effect we compare the educational attainment of siblings at age 21, exploiting the fact that they typically migrate at different ages within a given...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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