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Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy : Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Ehlert, Christoph Richard - 2012

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …

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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design

Ibarrarán, Pablo - 2012

This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … consistent with an overall increase in youth expectations about the future. The program also has a positive impact on non …

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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - 2009

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more recent stress on the importance of increasing the human capital … education, to favour smoother school-to-work transitions. Apprenticeships schemes, fiscal incentives to hire the youth …

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Looking Beyond the Bridge : How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes

Jahn, Elke J. - 2010

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages...

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TIPping the Scales Towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment

Andersson, Pernilla - 2009

A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...

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The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time Until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants : Evidence from Denmark

Heinesen, Eskil; Hummelgaard, Hans; Husted, Leif; … - 2021

We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language course participation and progression in destination country language skills. We use rich...

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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Austria

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2010

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by considering the regional effects on both the matching process and the job-seeker rate. We use an unique new data set on all Austrian job-seekers between 2001 to 2007 and apply GMM...

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Off to a Bad Start : Youth Nonemployment and Labor Market Outcomes Later in Life

Filomena, Mattia; Giorgetti, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022

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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Early Cannabis Use and School to Work Transition of Young Men

Williams, Jenny - 2017

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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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment

Frisvold, David E. - 2018

This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...

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