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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena Horrillo, Juan de Dios - 2013

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …

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Minimum wages at a turning point?

Égert, Balázs; Botev, Jarmila; Turner, Dave - 2024

-linear effects on employment of raising the minimum wage, in particular that marginal disemployment effects become larger when the …-linear disemployment effects are much more apparent for countries with strict Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) and/or with a high …

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Occupational aspirations and investments in education : experimental evidence from Cambodia

Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2023

Students in low-income contexts often lack guidance in their career decisions which can lead to a misallocation of educational investments. We report on a randomized field experiment conducted with 1715 students in rural Cambodia and show that a half-day workshop designed to support adolescents...

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Pension reform, retirement and life-cycle unemployment

Jaag, Christian (contributor); … - 2007

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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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Waiting longer before claiming, and activating youth : no point?

Cockx, Bart; Van Belle, Eva - 2016

impact of these policies on the transition rate to employment and on the quality of work. Both policies increase job finding …

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Young people, skills and cities

Peri, Giovanni - 2001

Young highly educated workers developed in the 70 s and 80 s a preference for working in larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over-represented in cities, in spite of the lower wage premium they earned for working in crowded metropolitan areas if compared to...

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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects

Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021

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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Use of ICTs : what effect on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon?

Meka’a, Cosmas Bernard; Njiepue Nouffeussie, Astride … - 2023

quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the … National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon (NIS) in 2014. The quality of employment is apprehended here by five of its … dimensions: income by sector of activity, the nature of the contract, regularity of employment, job satisfaction and length of …

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Creating cohesive communities : a youth camp experiment in India

Ghosh, Arkadev; Kundu, Prerna; Lowe, Matt; Nellis, Gareth - 2024

Non-family-based institutions for socializing young people may play a vital role in creating close-knit, inclusive communities. We study the potential for youth camps - integrating rituals, sports, and civics training - to strengthen intergroup cohesion. We randomly assigned Hindu and Muslim...

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