Self-efficacy beliefs of youth entering the labour market

Evaluation of Swedish youth labour market programmes

This paper evaluates and compares the direct effects of two Swedish active labour market programmes for youth, namely youth practice and labour market training. Effectiveness of the programmes is measured by subsequent annual earnings, re-employment probability, and probability of regular education. A non-parametric matching approach based on conditional independence assumption is applied to es...

The Role of Affects and Metacognitive Beliefs in Prediction of Youth Self-Harm Behaviors

The purpose of this study was to investigation of the role of Affects and metacognitive beliefs in prediction of youth self-harm behaviors. In a correlational descriptive design, 160 participants were selected using an available sampling method among dormitory students of Alzahra University and Tehran University. The data collection tools were metacognition questionnaire, positive and negative ...

The Effects Of Afghan Immigrants On The Iranian Labour Market

Applying Heterogeneous Transition Models in Labour Economics: the Role of Youth Training in Labour Market Transitions

We illustrate the di±culties raised by four features of realistic transition models in labour economics: dimensionality, institutional constraints, persistence and sample attrition. We estimate a multi-spell multi-state transition model using longitudinal data on the 1988 cohort of male school-leavers in North-West England. The model predicts transitions between college, the government Youth Tr...

The Role of Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Self-Regulatory Skill

Adolescence is often a stressful period during development because it involves a pivotal transition from childhood dependency to adulthood independence and self-sufficiency (Smith, Cowie, & Blades, 1998). One major challenge that adolescents encounter during their teenage years involves acquiring a sense of personal agency in what often seems to be a recalcitrant world. Personal agency refers t...