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2025-05-14 Impact of health and skills on the risk of weak labour market attachment

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This study examines how skills use influences labor market attachment among individuals with health limitations using European Union Labour Force Survey data from 2022. Our analysis reveals that digital and social skills use significantly improve employment prospects within this population, while cognitive skills show a ...

2022-09-28 How can labour market policies reduce gender gaps in youth employment?

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Despite significant improvements in recent decades, women's employment rates and wages lag behind those of men in all European countries. However, the magnitude of these gaps differs significantly across countries. Presented policy brief reviews policy measures that could reduce the gender gaps in the labour ...

2022-07-05 Patterns of labor market reforms: a regional approach to the Italian “Jobs Act”

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This paper contributes to the existing literature on wage subsidies, EPL reforms and their interaction focusing on regional disparities within the same country. The interest of the exercise relies in highlighting different reactions to the same reforms of the same institutional framework, depending on local ...

2022-07-01 Impact of increased local cooperation on PES outreach to non-employed youths

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Márton Csillag

Ágota Scharle

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One of the prime objectives of the reinforced Youth Guarantee is to engage vulnerable young persons and to encourage them to register as jobseekers. We piloted one relatively less resource-intensive method: organising workshops where local stakeholders working with vulnerable youth and local PES youth counsellors ...

2022-04-01 Youth labour market: indicators of demand and availability before and during Covid-19

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Karolina Bolesta

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Youths in the labour market today have been facing numerous challenges. The purpose of the research presented in this article is to measure the changes in the labour market due to the pandemic outbreak in Spain, Hungary, Italy and Poland in the light of labour ...

2022-03-16 The role of Public Employment Services in the job search behaviour of Italian NEETs

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This outreach report is devoted to the study of the positioning of the Public Employment Services (PES) in the job-search behaviour of Italian NEETs and their effectiveness in providing support to young jobseekers. We assess the ties between the young population and the PES and ...

2021-12-09 Resilience to the financial crisis in EU countries: a comparative analysis of NEET youths in a longitudinal perspective

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Marianna Filandri

Francesco Trentini

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In recent years the number of young individuals not in employment, education nor training has been rising alarmingly. This condition may have long-lasting social and economic consequences and the ability to profile the most resilient types gives important information on more effective interventions for the ...

2021-10-28 Do the Public Employment Services reach non-employed youths?

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One of the prime objectives of the Youth Guarantee is to convince young persons not in education or employment to register as jobseekers. This is done such that they can benefit from the services that the YG provides, which is especially important for those with ...

2021-03-30 Improving outreach among university students. Results from a RCT in the Basque Country

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We set up an experiment that aims to improve the registration rate at PES of last year undergraduate students of the University of the Basque Country. The results of this experiment show large gains from information-enhancing interventions on PES if designed holistically. We estimate the ...

2021-03-26 What works for whom? Youth labour market policy in Poland

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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. ...

2021-03-26 Outreach activities of public employment services in Poland

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Mateusz Smoter

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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 Counterfactual evaluation of youth employment policies. Methodological guide

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