This paper evaluates a measure targeted at unemployed individuals aged 20-24. The main purpose of the measure is to prevent long-term unemployment by guaranteeing an assignment to some labor market program within 100 days of unemployment. Municipalities voluntarily agree to offer the guarantee. To identify the effect of the measure, we use three conditions: The guarantee covers individuals aged...

Research background: The employment rate of young individuals in the labour market has considerably decreased developed countries recently. Due to lower capital, skills, and generic job-specific work experience, youth consider finding suitable job challenging. If they fail succeed soon after graduation, it leads long-term unemployment, unstable low-quality jobs, even social exclusion. Purpose a...

This study aims to examine how each cohort’s family formation is affected by labor market conditions experienced in youth in Japan. Although the deterioration in youth employment opportunities has often been blamed for Japan’s declining fertility rates, the effect of slack labor market conditions on fertility is theoretically unclear. We estimate the effects of regional labor market conditions ...

This paper examines the challenges of youth entrepreneurship and aims to understand whether local government sector in South Africa can act as a catalyst consolidating entrepreneurship. The is essential it mandated grow improve infrastructure community services contribute towards economic development. Opening opportunities for young people domain help reduce unemployment. Through funding traini...

Both countries were affected by substantial youth unemployment during the early 90s, triggering the development of comprehensive activation programmes for this group of unemployed. The Danish programme was introduced in 1996, whereas the British programme, the New Deal for Young People, began in a number of areas in January 1998, followed by national provision in April 1998. Because of this mor...