Young people and the labour market

Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market

The New Deal for Young People: effect of the options on the labour market status of young men

The New Deal for Young People: effect of the options on the labour market status of young men Richard Dorsett Policy Studies Institute Revised October 2004 Abstract: The New Deal for Young People was introduced throughout Great Britain in April 1998 as a key element of the government’s welfare-to-work strategy. Participants enter a period of intensive job search known as the ‘Gateway’ and then ...

To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland

To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that they obey mor...

Labour Market Programmes and Labour Market Outcomes: A study of the Swedish Active Labour Market Interventions

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed institutional features of these policies and allows for selection on observables and unobservables. We estimate t...

New Labour and the Labour Market

The recent run of good macro-economic news masks mounting evidence that worklessness is increasingly concentrated on selected individuals, households, socio-economic groups and geographical areas . Simply focussing on the aggregate unemployment rate bypasses many of these issues. Likewise, concentration on average wages and wage growth obscures the highest level of wage inequality ever statisti...