This article aims is to study the evolution of real minimum wages by branches of the Romanian economy and shaping trends in the period 2000-2008 to 2009-2010 years. In the scientific approach comprised the following steps: composition series nominal gross minimum wage at branch level, based on...

We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few...

The average unemployment rate in Europe has been consistently higher than in the United States since 1980. The main explanation offered by a rather large economics literature focuses on the interaction between institutions and shocks. The contribution of this paper is twofold: to assess whether...

Chapter 1: Youth’s Passage from School to Work -- Chapter 2: Youth and Demographic Dividends -- Chapter 3: Youth Education and Skill Levels -- Chapter 4: Youth Employment and Unemployment Situations -- Chapter 5: Linkage between Education, Skill and Employment -- Chapter 6: Idle or Inactive...

Purpose: This paper examines the effect of trade openness on youth employment in Sub-Saharan Africa, incorporating the roles of institutional quality and gender. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs the random effects estimator using a panel data of 35 Sub-Saharan African countries...

Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment following the Great Recession. We consider this issue for Denmark, a country relying extensively on this instrument. We present evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs as a way of...