unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth …

There is a substantial literature on the scarring effects of unemployment on future employment prospects and a smaller … HILDA survey data to investigate the inter-related dynamics of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in …

in two distinct inverted U‐shaped relationships between unemployment and high‐wage employment, one for youth and a … exacerbates unemployment. Our richer setting allows for generational differences in the motivations for job search to be reflected … different one for adults. In turn, the relationship between overall unemployment and high‐wage employment is shown to be non …

Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … the contribution they make to rural household income, the (ii) determinants of enterprise operation, and (iii) labor …

, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a … Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that entrepreneurial start-ups are the outcome of the efficiency with … which entrepreneurial abilities are matched with business opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve is a …

variables, i.e., sex, age, and education)? And given the personal characteristics and attitudes, how does the regional … "entrepreneurial milieu" affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a …

, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously … unemployment …

contemporary unemployment affect a young worker's probability of being invited to a job interview. In contrast to studies using … unobserved heterogeneity. We find no evidence that recruiting employers use information about past unemployment to sort workers …, but some evidence that they use contemporary unemployment to sort workers. The fact that employers do not seem to use past …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI … that policymakers should require job counseling for youth UI recipients during recessions …