SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS: AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO COMBAT YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

Duckietown: An Innovative Way to Teach Autonomy

Teaching robotics is challenging because it is a multidisciplinary, rapidly evolving and experimental discipline that integrates cutting-edge hardware and software. This paper describes the course design and first implementation of Duckietown, a vehicle autonomy class that experiments with teaching innovations in addition to leveraging modern educational theory for improving student learning. W...

Towards a State policy to Combat Youth Unemployment and the precarious Labour market in Brazil

The Impact Oe Youth Unemployment on Adult Unemployment in the Ncds*

Using the National Child Development Survey, this paper looks at cumulated experience of unemployment, highlighting how unemployment experience is concentrated on a minority of the workforce over extended periods. Eow educational attainment, ability not capttired by edtication, financial deprivation and behavioural problems in childhood raise a person's susceptibility to unemployment, there is ...

Youth unemployment and personality traits

This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and education and labour market choices. In particular, we investigate the impact of locus of control, effort and diligence, and self-esteem on the risk of youths being unemployed (sometimes referred to as NEET (“Not in Education, Employment or Training”), assuming unconfoundedness. Thus, our focus is on early dr...

Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training

This report focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and education policies. We highlight the role of demographic factors, economic growth and labor market institutions in explaining young people‘s transition into work. We then assess differences in the se...