This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 European countries. After implementing a decomposition of the variation in these preferences, it is showed that the crisis was highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth unemployment has considerably raise...

Despite the recent increase in educational investment, Spain still ranks towards the bottom of the OECD country list for the level of its human capital stock and the new inflow of high school graduates. We address this issue by investigating the impact of family characteristics and local labor market conditions on the demand for post-compulsory education. We find clear evidence of a positive ef...

Youth Unemployment in Belgium: Diagnosis and Key Remedies In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low educated. In this study we set a diagnosis of the main structural factors and advance key remedies. We analyze the system of employment protection, education and passive and active labor market policies. A high minimum wage, a...

Persistently high youth unemployment is one of the most pressing problems in South Africa. The South African government has proposed an employer wage subsidy to address the issue. We prospectively analyze such a policy. Recognizing that a credible estimate of the policy’s impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural...

Youths represent a very important stakeholder in any society. The solutions to adult problems tomorrow depend on how children grow today. Unemployment in Nigeria is a time bomb waiting to explode if effective interventions are not put in place to mitigate the unsavoury impact of high youth unemployment. This paper establishes a link between entrepreneurship and youth unemployment if adequate at...

Over the last two decades, youth unemployment emerged as one of the major problems of many contemporary European societies. As educational achievement is regularly argued to prevent labour market exclusion, this paper explores the educational stratification of unemployment in the early labour market career and its institutional embeddedness in specific education and employment systems. For the ...

Since the mid 1990s, the youth transition from school to work for youth in Japan has been changing radically. Youth unemployment and the number of part-time employees are increasing rapidly, as is the participation rate in higher education. The transition process has been prolonged, and the pattern has become diverse and complicated. It seems that ‘youth’ is being restructured profoundly. The c...