Project website: yepartnership.ibs.org.pl
How effectively are young people supported on the labour market? Project “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” aims to answer this question by evaluating employment initiatives targeting youth in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland.
The European Youth Guarantee (EYG) was introduced in 2013 to combat youth unemployment. Five years in, policies resulting from EYG still lack comprehensive evaluations in a cross-country framework. The countries participating in the project share common challenges of high youth unemployment and low capacity to perform high quality impact studies of youth employment Initiatives.
The project will evaluate two set of initiatives:
- outreach activities of Public Employment Services (PES) and
- job trials/job subsidies to different job contracts offered to youth, with a particular attention paid to gender dimension of policy targeting and outcomes.
We will use harmonized methods of evaluation based on similar administrative data, which are little explored in CEE and SE Europe. These evaluation studies will be complemented with RCT (Randomized Control Trials) experiments in Hungary, Poland and Spain. They will assess which interventions have the potential to boost outreach to inactive, unregistered youth.
In addition, the project will build capacity in research institutions to implement evaluation studies of employment initiatives by creating a transnational research network on youth employment policies, internships for PhD students and workshops on evaluation methods for researchers from other institutions. It will also promote the use of impact studies among policy-makers. As a result, youth employment policies can become more effective.
All publications prepared as a part of the project are available on the project’s website.
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The „Youth employment partnerSHIP – evaluation studies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland” project benefits from 1,8 million € grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment. The Fund supports international project initiatives that promote sustainable and quality youth employment in Europe.
The project is implemented by:
Lead partner – IBS (Institute for Structural Research from Warsaw, Poland)
Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis (Hungary)
Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy)
Foundation for Applied Economics Studies – FEDEA (Spain)
National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies – INAPP (Italy)
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Expertise partners
NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Norway)
Paris School of Economics (France)
- IBS - principal investigator:
- Iga Magda
- IBS - researchers:
- Marta Palczyńska, Jan Gromadzki, Mateusz Smoter
- Contact:
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yepartnership@ibs.org.pl
news
The Conference took place in Prague on 21-23 September 2023. Piotr Lewandowski and Marta Palczyńska represented IBS.
The conference took place in Warsaw on 11-12 September 2023. Marta Palczyńska represented IBS.
This year the ESPE conference was held in Belgrade in June. Marta Palczyńska from IBS presented the paper "The employment effects of a wage subsidy for the young during an economic recovery", co-authored by Astrid Kunze (NHH) and Iga Magda (IBS).
SEHO - the Society of Economics of the Household brings together scientists from around the world dealing with the subject of broadly understood economics of the household. The University of Copenhagen organised this year's meeting.
The IZA workshop "Inequality in Post-Transition and Emerging Economies" was organised by Hartmut Lehmann, Natalia Danzer, and Alexander Muravyev. Marta Placzyńska presented IBS's research findings.
„It’s difficult but not impossible” is the slogan of the meeting where representatives of various backgrounds were wondering how to improve existing employment support programs.
Over 200 people from over 31 countries – scientists, policymakers and representatives of non-governmental organisations were discussing the most recent problems and trends related to the youth labour market.
The first photo report from the conference. Enjoy!
What must we do to improve youth employment support programs? – Iga Magda, vice-president of the Institute for Structural Research.
8th of June 2022 Business &Science Poland Conference Centre Rue Belliard 40, Brussels + online
Turin, 24th – 25th of February 2022
We launched our new project during a special session of the 2019 IBS and the World Bank Conference – Warsaw, January 16.
We kindly invite you to the launch event for our new international project „Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” – Warsaw, January 16.
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Summary of the workshop on the evaluation of active labour market policies available in Poland for the unemployed youth.
Publications
We conducted a survey experiment in Poland to investigate how providing young people from the NEET group with information affected their rate of registration with the public employment services. The individuals assigned to the treatment group received information about the services offered by the PES. ...
This publication was created as part of the “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” project, which seeks to combat unemployment among young people. It measures the effectiveness of instruments to support young people who aren’t working or studying in four countries: Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The project ...
This paper compares the relative effectiveness of selected active labour market policies available to young unemployed people in Poland in the years 2015-2016. We use rich administrative data and propensity score matching techniques to control for the non-random selection of unemployed individuals into alternative interventions. ...
This publication was created as part of the “Youth Employment PartnerSHIP” project, which seeks to combat unemployment among young people. It measures the effectiveness of instruments to support young people who aren’t working or studying in four countries: Poland, Spain, Italy and Hungary. The project ...
2021-03-15
Policy lessons from the evaluation of youth employment policies in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland
This policy brief summarises the main lessons of four studies prepared in the Youth Employment PartnerSHIP project. Each study evaluated the impact on young people of one or several employment policies using counterfactual quantitative methods based on administrative data from four countries. The issue of youth unemployment is relevant in all of these countries, although…
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