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Most youth in developing countries leave school with only a general academic education level, slowing down their transition to the labor market. We analyze whether work experience during school can help youth transition more easily to a first job in Benin. We used data from the 2014...
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This paper examines the causes of the decline in black male teenage employment from 1950 to 1970. During this period …, the employment-to-population ratio of black youth (age 16-19) declined from 46.8 percent to 27 percent. The white teenage … employment ratio, in contrast, remained constant. The primary source of the decline is traced to the virtual demise of the market …
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Iran's young men and women face serious challenges in their transitions to employment and marriage. We study the … retrospective data of education, employment, and marital outcomes for youth ages 15–29, it provides a new and valuable tool for … exploring the challenges facing these youth. In our analysis of the transition to employment, which employs discrete-time hazard …
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this paper, the interrelationship between employment, residential emancipation and poverty dynamics is studied for eight … poverty has negative consequences on the likelihood of employment …
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Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … transfer are large: hours of non-household employment double and cash earnings increase by nearly 50% relative to the control … study. These results suggest that increasing access to credit and capital could stimulate employment growth in rural Africa …
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This volume of Research in the Sociology of Work starts with a deceptively simple question of, "Do events and experiences during adolescence influence the work outcomes of individuals when they reach adulthood?" While at first glance simple, the question has a wide range of theoretical and...
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, aiming to inspire and help all actors involved in delivering the Youth Guarantee. The report Employment and entrepreneurship … under the Youth Guarantee looks at employment incentives, direct job creation measures and start-up incentives that help … young people to overcome employment barriers. …
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