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This essay discusses the determinants of youth unemployment within the EU and then the alternative policy options … currently at stake. We argue that youth unemployment regards especially some peripheral EU countries and is due to a mix of … the European Youth Guarantee, which is underfinanced, but also the introduction of better links between the education …
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This paper investigates the school-to-work transition of young people from subsequent graduation cohorts between 2005 and 2012 in Egypt. The analysis compares the early employment outcomes of those who left school after the January 25th 2011 revolution to that of those who graduated before 2011....
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migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...
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We study the impact of early cannabis use on the school to work transition of young men. Our empirical approach accounts for common unobserved confounders that jointly affect selection into cannabis use and the transition from school to work using a multivariate mixed proportional hazard...
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with slow economic growth, rather than the supposedly low degree of labor market flexibility explain high (youth … youth long term unemployed, the so-called Good School and the related introduction of work-related learning, the European … Youth Guarantee and the reform of employment services - have been all recently implemented, which are causing a slow …
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Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted … time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions relates to gender and social class. We demonstrate that youth today …. Whether youth successfully make transitions to formal jobs, embark on such transitions and fail, or pursue a traditional route …
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We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor … locking the youth who get off to a bad start into low-wage jobs. …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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