Regional aspects of youth labor employment

Employment Protection and the Labor Informality of the Youth: Evidence from India

Promoting Youth Employment

The Effects of Youth Employment :

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...

Selected Labor & Employment Law Updates

Court holds that warehouse employees who were not guaranteed fixed hours or schedules and could bid for regular jobs as they became available were not "casual employees" as defined by the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and the employer thus was required to contribute to fund on their behalf Even if the employer treated the employees as casual employees, such practice could not contraven...

Social protection and labor market outcomes in South Africa: Employment and Youth Transitions to the Marketplace

South Africa has put in place an extensive system of social grants over the post-apartheid years. It is well known that these grants have important direct impacts on poverty alleviation. However, not much is known about the interactions between these social grants and successful integration of individuals into the labor market. On the basis of little evidence, there is loud speculation in polic...