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Caste and Rural Youth in India: Education, Skills and Employment

Motkuri, Venkatanarayana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The present paper examines the changing nature of employment situation of rural youth in India by social group status, during the last two decades. The large part of the analysis in this paper is based on the NSSO quinquennial surveys on employment and unemployment. In this respect we have used...

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Youth unemployment, firm size and reservation wages in South Africa

Rankin, Neil A.; Roberts, Gareth A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Youth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young people want or need are above those that they could reasonably expect to earn given their characteristics. Unlike previous work on the relationship between reservation wages and...

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Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective

O'Higgins, Niall - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

This study discusses in depth the youth unemployment "problem" and examines the various policy responses to it, including education and training, and active labour market policy. It emphasizes the need for adequate labour market information, policy monitoring and programme evaluation to help...

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From Training to Labour Market. Holocletic Model.

Santos, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The desired professional insertion (placement) after training is under the influence of personal and exogenous variables. In the present paper we identify the constraints and devices that, in an interactive way, can shape and affect the professional insertion. This paper is a result of a...

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Workplace Training Programs: Instruments for Human Capital Improvements or Screening Devices?

Brunetti, Irene; Corsini, Lorenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper we analyse the effect of an Italian training program on the re-employment probability of young unemployed workers. The program consists solely of workplace training and is coordinated by employment centre, but it is fully implemented by firms. We develop a discrete duration...

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What is the relationship between unemployment and rape? Evidence from a panel of European regions

Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes the relationship between unemployment and rape in a panel of European regions. In particular, this paper is intended to test whether an ‘opportunity perspective’ holds for rape. The ‘opportunity perspective’ interprets the level of unemployment as an indicator of...

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Land Access and Youth Livelihood Opportunities in Southern Ethiopia

Bezu, Sosina; Holden, Stein T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce...

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Le cause del (l’in-)successo lavorativo dei giovani

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper suggests that the insufficient work experience of young people as compared to adults is the major cause of the hardship the former experience in the labour market both in terms of employment and wages. Economists are bewildered as to the determinants of and as to the ways to cure the...

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Offshoring of Medium-skill Jobs, Polarization, and Productivity Effect: Implications for Wages and Low-skill Unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task- assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...

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The distribution of adult training among European unemployed: Evidence from recent surveys

Badescu, Mircea; Garrouste, Christelle; Loi, Massimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

’s new strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth — ‘Europe 2020’. Policies encouraging wide participation in … capability of these two surveys to capture the participation in adult education programmes in Europe. After having estimated a … probit model on both datasets, we find that, overall, unemployed adults in Europe tend to participate less in training than …

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