Youth Unemployment and Self-employment: Trends and Perspectives

Youth Employment and Unemployment in India

Increase in the share of youth population due to demographic ‘dividend’ or the ‘youth bulge’ seems to be one of the sources of future economic growth in India. Although with increase in school and college enrolment rates, the proportion of youth in the labour force has been declining, their high proportions in the labour force indicate that the problem of youth unemployment and underemployment ...

Youth employment, unemployment, skills and economic growth

Youth Employment , Unemployment , Underemployment : A Continuing Dilemma

Ray Marshall 6th Annual Konopka Lecture May, 1983 INTRODUCTION Dr. Marshall’s insights and perspectives on youth employment have emerged from his work in governmental, private , and academic settings. He served as Secretary of Labor during the Carter Administration (1977-1980) and is presently the Bernard Rapoport Centennial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas. ...

Ukraine crisis: Trends and Perspectives

Thecrisis in Ukraine has become a tragedy, as is evidenced by the thousands ofpeople who have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees. It willalter the future of Ukraine, Europe, Eurasia and possibly the world. The crisisbegan in the fall of 2013 as a public response to the authorities’ ill-advisedpolicy and the greed of the elite. However, clumsy assistance provided byconcerned «par...

Employment protection and unemployment

The second factor often mentioned in discussions of European unemployment is employment protection (the first, unernploymenr benefits, was the topic of the previous note). Employment protection, the argument goes, increases the cost of doing business, leads to sclerosis of the economy, and to high unemployment. The purpose of this note is to assess both the theoretical and the empirical merits ...