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        Education and Skills 10 October 2014

        Overcoming the Youth Employment Crisis: Strategies From Around the Globe

        This report examines what some governments, companies, and civil society groups are currently doing to improve youth employment outcomes, and with what effect.

        Report
        Welfare and Rights 30 September 2014

        Brazil’s Social Welfare Approach: Improving Job Outcomes for the Youth by Delaying Entrance Into Workforce

        Young people in Brazil enter the workforce too early, hindering their ability to gain the education and employable skills that deliver good job outcomes. The Brazilian government has implemented a broad set of social welfare schemes aimed at giving families financial relief, enabling youth to stay in school longer and delay their entry into the labor force.

        by Alfredo Santos, Gregory Randolph
        Report
        Income and Wages 11 September 2015

        Global Wage Debates: Politics or Economics?

        The 10-chapter volume examines a rich diversity of wage-related policy issues from around the world: wage inequality in Brazil; minimum wage setting in decentralized Indonesia; the gender dimensions of agricultural wages in India; and the impact of state-level minimum wages in the United States, among other topics.

        by Gregory Randolph, Knut Panknin
        Report
        Income and Wages 10 September 2015

        Minimum Wage in Brazil: A Useful Policy Tool to Reduce Wage Inequality?

        What role did a rising minimum wage play in reducing wage inequality in Brazil in the first decade of the 21st century? Is it reasonable to expect that the policy of tying minimum wage to economic growth will continue to act as a key driver of inequality reduction in the near future?

        by Alexandre de Freitas Barbosa et al.

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