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This paper presents an overview of the situation of youth in OECD countries since the onset of the financial crisis … focusing primarily on describing the characteristics and living conditions of youth not in employment, education or training … employment situation of the most disadvantaged youth. Due to the paper’s explicit focus on the hardest-to-place, most …
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This paper presents an overview of the situation of youth in OECD countries since the onset of the financial crisis … impact of interventions that aim at improving the social, education and employment situation of the most disadvantaged youth …. Due to the paper’s explicit focus on the hardest-to-place, most disadvantaged youth, the range of policies covered is …
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The impact of recessions on school enrollment is ambiguous. On one hand, recessions might increase the likelihood of enrollment due to decreasing opportunity costs of attending school. On the other hand, recessions might discourage enrollment due to reductions households have in funds available...
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-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program …
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This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We …-risk youth ; resilience ; deviancy training ; deterrence ; primary- and high-school ; post-secondary education ; remedial …
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Societies benefit from the delivery of inclusive education, lifelong learning and from active labour market policies. Therefore, this research presents a critical review of the relevant literature. It features a comparative analysis on the latest socio-economic policies that are currently being...
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This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of...
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Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisis - often referred to as “the Great Recession” - there is grave concern that progress made in...
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The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many … profits were concentrated among marginal students induced into entrepreneurship by the program. Youth entrepreneurship …
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