youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify the causal effect …

employment and unemployment outcomes is very sensitive to the age range of the sample. We argue that this is because the … size increases employment and reduces unemployment. …

youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes … in the relative size of age groups will cause changes in age-specific unemployment rates. In light of the expected … self-select into areas of low unemployment, the empirical analysis employs an instrumental variables estimator to identify …