We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated … interventions are designed to lower spatial and informational barriers to employment. We find that both treatments significantly … employment outcomes, and the job application workshop alleviates informational asymmetries by helping workers to signal their …

leads to significant increases in teen crime and pregnancy and a significant decrease in early-life employment. The effects …, teen pregnancy increases by 8 percentage points, and employment at age 20 decreases by 28 percentage points. In contrast …

has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …

hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a … generally not significant and do not support the initial hypothesis. However, the employment probability of a youth is …The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This …

This study presents a time series analysis of the youth unemployment problem stressing the cohort overcrowding effect … problem. First, reduced form unemployment equations are estimated for the disaggregated youth groups. The results indicate … that secular swings in female and white youth unemployment rates do track well with the cohort imbalance hypothesis …

. Much of youth non-employment is not picked up in the official unemployment statistics, because many young people give up … employment opportunities is the crux of the problem for those most seriously affected by youth unemployment …This paper analyzes the dynamics of youth unemployment. Three broad conclusions emerge. First, the problem of youth …