Activation Programs—Do They Help Young People with Poor Labor Market Prospects Find Work?

In 2008, Sweden introduced a new “activation” program, the Youth Job Guarantee (YJG), to help unemployed youth find jobs though

Completing an Internship Increases Wages and Probability of Employment

The share of university students completing an internship is as high as 75–80 percent in many countries throughout North America

State-to-state and county-to-county migration is an important way for local economies to recover and adjust after experiencing an unexpected downturn

Many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity among their employees, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence

In the turmoil of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in relation

Economists have been studying how minimum wage increases affect employment for a long time, but indexing the minimum wage to

Everything else equal, employers might respond differently to a person based on where they live, avoiding people from a neighborhood

Thousands of articles have been written on gender differentials in labor markets, but almost none have studied employers’ explicit requests

Policies aimed at tackling youth unemployment are a key priority for policymakers because unemployment when young is known to have

The United States is one of very few OECD countries where employers provide sick pay only voluntarily. This has led