Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of … economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth …

in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost … effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms claiming the subsidy with similar firms not claiming the subsidy … impact on youth employment on average. We see a positive and statistically significant effect on youth and non-youth …

. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage …

The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region … faces a growing 'youth bulge' that is disproportionately burdened by un- and underemployment, capturing the votes of this … generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa's youth. In …

was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …