This paper investigates the link between youth unemployment and crime using a unique combination of labor market and conviction data spanning the entire Swedish working-age population over an extended period. The empirical analysis reveals large and statistically significant effects of unemployment on several types of crime. The magnitude of the effect is similar across different subgroups of t...

This paper provides new crosscountry evidence on the impact of cognitive skills, as measured by international achievement tests, on subsequent youth employment outcomes. High average scores are strongly associated with increases in school enrollment and reductions in the incidence of unemployment, with slightly stronger effects for women. Higher scores also correlate with a larger share of yout...

Educated youth unemployment is crucial issue for developing countries. The social and economic costs of unemployment at individual, household and national level are universal. But there are few studies on unemployment duration when the individuals start jobs and its determinants in developing countries. We have analyzed the determinants of unemployment for first time jobs seekers, taking primar...

The potential stock of human capital among youth is a leading factor for accelerating the economic growth country via maximising full capacity utilisation. main purpose this study to identify factors influencing unemployment in Sri Lanka using subsample 3,562 youths derived from Labour Force Survey, 2018. Findings stemmed binary logistic regression analysis revealed that skill mismatch, includi...