Youth is an important and critical transition stage towards adulthood, during which time individuals are supposed to prepare in the best possible conditions for adulthood. Moroccan youth facing unequal opportunities develop because of circumstances their household background childhood deprivation. This paper measures level poverty equality among aged 18–29 years utilizing Human Opportunity Inde...

This report presents the results of a study that uses state administrative data to analyze employment, earnings, and public assistance receipt among former Wisconsin foster youth who exited outof-home care between January 1, 1992, and December 31, 1998, and who were at least 17 years old at the time of their exit. Our results suggest that former foster youth who had aged out of care or had been...

This study investigates the lasting health effects of leaving school in a bad economy. Three empirical patterns motivate this study: Leaving school in a bad economy has persistent and negative career effects, career and health outcomes are correlated, and fluctuations in contemporaneous economic conditions affect health in the short-run. I draw data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Yout...

This paper offers a comparison of the public significance of youth during two episodes of regime breakdown. It draws on my thesis which explores the meaning of youth in key crisis moments in Europe and the political mobilisation of young people. I selected cases of hybrid regimes with significant mobilisation of young people and an intense struggle about the meaning of youth as part of regime c...

CONTEXT Economic difficulties at the individual level can lead to a number of behavioral problems, including substance abuse and delinquent behaviors. OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of a nationwide adverse economic environment during infancy, specifically, the high unemployment rates during and after the 1980 and 1981-1982 recessions, on rates of subsequent adolescent substance use and deli...

Youth is one of the vulnerable groups in labor market Kazakhstan. Low professional training, lack necessary knowledge and skills, unwillingness many employers to hire workers without work experience high qualifications are main barriers youth employment. Kazakhstan implementing a number government measures involve young people educational activities. One such tool internships, which allow recen...

Investments in education, work, and the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youth contribute to their human development and autonomy, and guarantee that they will have their own resources and pensions for old age. In Latin America and the Caribbean 100 million adolescents aged 10 to 19 years demand schools and teachers in secondary education, employment and health services. This w...

We show that ethnic patronage and weak property rights provide an avenue for rent extraction in a Kenyan slum, Kibera. Slum residents pay higher rents for their dwelling, and invest less in housing quality when the landlord and the local chief belong to the same tribe. Conversely, rents are lower, and investments higher, when the household and the chief belong to the same tribe. These effects a...

This study evaluates the long-run effects of Finnish active labour market programmes in youth labour markets. The effectiveness of programmes is measured by a number of outcomes, including employment, unemployment, programme participation, education, being out-of-labour force and annual earnings. A nonparametric propensity score matching approach adapted for the case of multiple programmes is a...