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...

Governments and local communities across the world have recognized that key to building prosperity and stimulate regional growth is fostering entrepreneurship among their people especially youth. Youth entrepreneurship has become a topic of interest for research scholars and also a subject of major concern for the Government. While youth entrepreneurship is an under-explored field, the main fac...

Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data on young men, we estimate the longterm effects of youth unemployment on later labor market outcomes. A spell of involuntary unemployment can lead to sub-optimal investments in human capital among young people in the short run. A theoretical model of dynamic human capital investment predicts a rational “catch-up” response to such a spell. Using se...

Unemployment among the youth is a significant problem in South Africa. Large corporations and the public sector simply cannot create enough jobs. Too many youths in South Africa currently do not consider entrepreneurship as an option in order to become independent. Unlike the youth of the Netherlands, South African youth prefer to find employment in the public or private sector. The Netherlands...

This paper analyzes the determinants and consequences of youth unemployment in Honduras. The study is based on estimation error correction models that express terms real sector variables. results indicate exports, remittances self employment reduce unemployment, while expansion service increases it; other show susceptible to economic activity Central American countries, specifically growth Guat...

Persons who are unemployed for long periods of time in our society constitute a large, complex, ongoing problem, even during times of rleatively high employment. The significance of this problem is supported by the fact that between 1947 and 1962 long-term unemployment had risen 100 percent, while short-term unemployment rose 20 percent. We were also reducing short-term unemployment during this...