Discussion paper

DP2394 Youth Employment Policies In France

In this paper, we present a summary of recent microeconometric results on the evaluation of the effects of active labour market policies on youth employment in France. We focus our discussion on three types of policies: (1) youth employment schemes for out-of-employment and low-skilled young adults, (2) on-the-job training schemes, (3) payroll tax subsidies for minimum wage workers. Training programs for unemployed young workers have in general no effects on post-training wages or employment probabilities, except if they have a large training content. In contrast, the reduction of labour costs has significant effects on employment probabilities of low-wage workers; however their effects appear to be stronger for workers between 25 and 30.

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Citation

Magnac, T, F Kramarz and D Fougère (2000), ‘DP2394 Youth Employment Policies In France‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2394. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp2394